Nixon for President
Sir: It will be a disaster if Senator McGovern becomes President of the United States, even more so if Senator Edward Kennedy were his running mate. One must always remember that the Vice-President is only a heart-beat away from the Presidency.
If McGovern does persuade Senator Kennedy to be his running mate it will boomerang on him — the events of Martha's Vineyard are still too fresh in people's memories. McGovern is prepared to scuttle immediately from Vietnam without any thought of the American PoWs.
Nixon is not so cynical. He regards the future of American PoWs to be considered in any withdrawal. It would have been easy for him to have shrugged his shoulders and conceded complete victory to Hanoi. He could have said rightly that Vietnam was not a Republican responsibility but a hornet's nest he had inherited from the Democrats as a result of Kennedy's vainglorious boast.
Instead he has taken the tough way and incurred the jeers and boos of unthinking Americans and so-called allies. He has acted with honesty and courage and everyone who detests Communism and all it stands for must applaud his cour age. President Nixon's achievements are substantial. He has already set about ending the Vietnam war. He has sought to reach a detente and accommodation with Russia and China. Both these great enterprises are incomplete and it is only sensible to conclude that the man who began them will be the best man to conclude them.
Nixon so often denigrated in the past, has proven himself a statesman and a good President. Given time and a second term I think history will judge him a great one.
Americans, you are lucky to have such a President. Be proud of him. Support him. Re-elect him.
John S. MoCowan Chairman, Stourbridge AngloAmerican Society,
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