The Men Around Nixon

~The Men Around Nixon Who they are, where they came from, where they’re going, and what they can tell him that he doesn’t already know. Or does he? When Richard Nixon makes his next run for the White House roses, there will be no Theodore Sorensen beside him, no Sherman Adams. In all like- lihood, there will be nobody as close as, say, Bill Moyers was to LBJ. Nixon has long been known as the most solitary of bigtime politicians and he has done nothing recently to change that reputation. As nobody knows better than Nixon, however, the Presidential enterprise in our time is enormously complex. It requires legions of loyal and highly skilled personnel. Where are these Nixon legions? What are their skills? What influence do they have with him? The most visible members of the Nixon apparat are Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alex- ander & Mitchell, the big Wall Street law firm Nixon joined as_ senior partner following his

defeat in California. Closest to the public cperation is 28-year-old Patrick Buchanan, whom Nixon plucked from the editorial staff of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1965. Buchanan prepares background ma- terial on policy issues and local polit- ical situations, but in keeping with the Nixon tradition does no speech- writing as such. Buchanan frankly describes himself as a conservative and has frequently served as an aper- tura a destra, collecting conservative leaders for quiet confabs with Nixon. The other “issues” man ‘at 20 Broad Street is Raymond Price, 36, who was until its demise chief editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune. He was convincingly anti- Goldwater in 1964 and retains close ties to Walter Thayer, who wields considerable influence in liberal Re- publican circles by virtue of his en- during associations with Dwight Eisenhower and John Hay Whitney. Price specializes in Asian _ policy

About the Author

Neal B. Freeman

Neal B. Freeman, businessman and journalist, was a director of National Review Inc. for 38 years.

~The Men Around Nixon Who they are, where they came from, where they’re going, and what they can tell him that he doesn’t already know. Or does he? When Richard Nixon makes his next run for the White House roses, there will be no Theodore Sorensen beside him, no Sherman Adams. In all like- lihood, there will be nobody as close as, say, Bill Moyers was to LBJ. Nixon has long been known as the most solitary of bigtime politicians and he has done nothing recently to change that reputation. As nobody knows better than Nixon, however, the Presidential enterprise in our time is enormously complex. It requires legions of loyal and highly skilled personnel. Where are these Nixon legions? What are their skills? What influence do they have with him? The most visible members of the Nixon apparat are Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alex- ander & Mitchell, the big Wall Street law firm Nixon joined as_ senior partner following his

defeat in California. Closest to the public cperation is 28-year-old Patrick Buchanan, whom Nixon plucked from the editorial staff of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1965. Buchanan prepares background ma- terial on policy issues and local polit- ical situations, but in keeping with the Nixon tradition does no speech- writing as such. Buchanan frankly describes himself as a conservative and has frequently served as an aper- tura a destra, collecting conservative leaders for quiet confabs with Nixon. The other “issues” man ‘at 20 Broad Street is Raymond Price, 36, who was until its demise chief editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune. He was convincingly anti- Goldwater in 1964 and retains close ties to Walter Thayer, who wields considerable influence in liberal Re- publican circles by virtue of his en- during associations with Dwight Eisenhower and John Hay Whitney. Price specializes in Asian _ policy