Word: foreign
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Rogers was the nominee who aroused most interest. Despite all the speculation, his name did not leak out until early last week. Moreover, Rogers has virtually no significant experience in foreign affairs beyond a good-will mission to West Africa during the Eisenhower Administration and a brief stint last year as delegate to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Southwest Africa...
...previous involvement in diplomacy-several German papers referred to him as an unbeschrie-benes Blatt (blank page)-is not a drawback as far as Nixon is concerned. He intends to be his own policymaker in foreign affairs; most Presidents are. Nixon has often called diplomacy his "strong suit," the field in which he will "call the turn," and does not need another John Foster Dulles. He does need an able administrator to run, and, if possible, streamline a disorganized department, a skilled and well-liked advocate on Capitol Hill, a shrewd and discerning representative in dealings with allies and foes...
...views on that are a mystery. "I have never said or written a word about Viet Nam," he observed. "I'm very happy about that." He will have to start speaking soon enough on this and other subjects. While Nixon never became very precise during the campaign on foreign policy issues, his general statements -and the obvious pressure points overseas-provide a relatively clear agenda...
...ROTC altogether, I find the connection between ROTC, America's armed forces and Vietnam far more complex than that between Dow, napalm and Vietnam; and I do find the parallel between moral opposition to Nazism and moral opposition to ROTC, or to America's armed forces, or to American foreign policy (which I have not been known to celebrate) unconvincing, to say the least. Nor do I believe that one can legislate for the future exclusively on the basis of Vietnam...
Support for protectionism naturally rises in a nation undergoing balance of payments problems. Economist Arthur Burns, a Nixon adviser, last week emphasized that one of the new President's primary tasks will be to "check the serious deterioration in foreign trade." One way would be to block some of the $32.6 billion in imports now flowing into the U.S. That would also reverse a 35-year trend to liberalized trade -at a time the world is trading more than ever. Ultimately, the U.S. can ease its travail in trade only by increasing its productivity at home and pressing...