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Next to the impact of the Nixon trip on U.S.-Soviet relations, the hottest topic of Washington talk last week was the impact of the Nixon trip on U.S. 1960 presidential politics. And whether they were glad or sad about it, the politicos agreed that Richard Nixon's performance had trimmed his bright prospects in glowing red neon...
Reported the McClure Newspaper Syndicate's Trendex Poll, after sampling opinion while Nixon was in Russia: "Nixon's presidential prospects have been increased tremendously by his Russian visit." Replies to a standard Trendex question-"Do you think Richard Nixon or Nelson Rockefeller would get the most votes for the Presidency as the nominee of the Republican Party?"-showed a phenomenal Nixon upsurge...
...Nixon 38% Rockefeller 46% No Choice...
While Richard Nixon whistle-stopped his way through the vast expanse of Siberia, the world barely noted the foreign ministers' conference grinding to an inconclusive end in Geneva. In Vienna, young Americans and Russians alike were learning some of the facts of international life at a rowdy, Red-run youth festival. And in their twin expositions-the Soviet in New York and the U.S. in Moscow-the superpowers sought with all the arts of salesmanship and propaganda to convince each other of their strength, wealth and contentment...
Asking Price. Traveling ballet troupes and mutual exchanges of praiseworthy banalities were, of course, getting to be old stuff. But the new turn in last week's accumulation of events was the emergence of the Big Two as a conscious entity. To Nixon, as to previous U.S. visitors, Khrushchev voiced the opinion that world peace could be guaranteed if only the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could get together. But Khrushchev's more crucial decision to give Nixon a chance to shine in Russia was a conscious effort to persuade the U.S. to bypass NATO, the Big Four...