New York, Oct. 3—Concerning Senator Muskie’s observation that there would be little point in putting a black Vice President on his ticket, inasmuch as both of them would then proceed to lose, a few observations.
1.President Nixon’s retort that Senator Muskie had “libeled” the American people is both disingenuous and misleading. Disingenuous because we have all been told that when Henry Cabot Lodge, running for Vice President on Richard Nixon’s ticket in 1960, promised somebody somewhere that if Mr. Nixon were elected he would name a Negro to the Cabinet, Candidate Nixon almost fainted. And no wonder.
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