New York, Nov. 18—There is much speculation about the composition of Mr. Nixon’s Cabinet; indeed my brothers Messrs. Novak and Evans, after telling us over the years that Nixon could never win the Presidency, have now just about completed the staffing of Nixon’s Administration. If we take their word for it, and that of others who are engaged in similar forecasting, Mr. Nixon’s Cabinet will look like a roster of eligibles drawn up by the Ripon Society.
It is, by the way, interesting that so many of the season’s orators who were proclaiming that Senator Strom Thurmond would exercise a veto power over any appointment by Mr. Nixon, think nothing at all now of predicting very liberal appointments. But of course that was campaign oratory, and we have known it ever since Mr. Wendell Willkie told us, that we are not to take seriously the vaticinations of hungry politicians. Even so, it is unquestionably in Mr. Nixon’s mind to nominate a “balanced” team: i.e., to include in it recognized leaders of Republicans, both left and right. He may even nominate a Democrat or two, even as old FDR used to do, the better to eat us up with. A few words are appropriate concerning some of the names one hears mentioned.
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