NIXON, Richard M. Typed letter signed ("Dick Nixon"), as Vice President, to Lawrence E. Spivak, Washington 8 May 1959. WITH 5-PAGE MEMO (CARBON), UNSIGNED, DESCRIBING HIS 19 APRIL 1959 MEETING WITH FIDEL CASTRO. Together 6 pages, 4tos, with letter on Office of Vice President stationery, attached memo on carbons (glue remnants on lower left corners, fifth page of memo laid down, with glue show-through) .
NIXON, Richard M. Typed letter signed ("Dick Nixon"), as Vice President, to Lawrence E. Spivak, Washington 8 May 1959. WITH 5-PAGE MEMO (CARBON), UNSIGNED, DESCRIBING HIS 19 APRIL 1959 MEETING WITH FIDEL CASTRO. Together 6 pages, 4tos, with letter on Office of Vice President stationery, attached memo on carbons (glue remnants on lower left corners, fifth page of memo laid down, with glue show-through) . CASTRO'S "SLAVISH SUBSERVIENCE" TO "THE VOICE OF THE MOB" WORRIES NIXON Nixon admires Castro's charisma and bravery here in this memorandum summarizing his discussion with the Cuban leader on 19 April 1959. He has, Nixon says, "those indefinable qualities which make him a leader of men." But there was also much that disturbed him. Everything Castro did, from suspending elections to the execution of political opponents, he justifies as carrying out "the will of the people." "It was," Nixon says, "this almost slavish subservience to prevailing majority opinion--the voice of the mob--rather than his naove attitude toward Communism and his obvious lack of understanding of even the most elementary economic principles which concerned me most in evaluating what kind of a leader he might eventually turn out to be." There were, however, some points of agreement: "He indicated that it was very foolish for the United States to furnish arms to Cuba or any other Caribbean country." Arms, Castro said, "are only used to suppress people, as Batista used his arms to fight the revolution." America should provide investment capital instead. "I will have to admit," Nixon says, "that as far as his basic argument was concerned here I found little that I could disagree with!" Castro hit another nerve with Nixon when he pointed out that the American people--the citizens of the most powerful country on earth--were surprisingly uneasy and insecure: "Your people...should be proud and confident and happy," Castro told him. "But everyplace I go you seem to be afraid-afraid of Communism, afraid that if Cuba has land reform it will grow a little rice and the market for your rice will be reduced." Instead Americans "should be talking more about your own strength and the reasons why your system is superior to Communism." In his conclusion, Nixon says that because Castro has "the power to lead...we have no choice but at least to try to orient him in the right direction."
NIXON, Richard M. Typed letter signed ("Dick Nixon"), as Vice President, to Lawrence E. Spivak, Washington 8 May 1959. WITH 5-PAGE MEMO (CARBON), UNSIGNED, DESCRIBING HIS 19 APRIL 1959 MEETING WITH FIDEL CASTRO. Together 6 pages, 4tos, with letter on Office of Vice President stationery, attached memo on carbons (glue remnants on lower left corners, fifth page of memo laid down, with glue show-through) .
NIXON, Richard M. Typed letter signed ("Dick Nixon"), as Vice President, to Lawrence E. Spivak, Washington 8 May 1959. WITH 5-PAGE MEMO (CARBON), UNSIGNED, DESCRIBING HIS 19 APRIL 1959 MEETING WITH FIDEL CASTRO. Together 6 pages, 4tos, with letter on Office of Vice President stationery, attached memo on carbons (glue remnants on lower left corners, fifth page of memo laid down, with glue show-through) . CASTRO'S "SLAVISH SUBSERVIENCE" TO "THE VOICE OF THE MOB" WORRIES NIXON Nixon admires Castro's charisma and bravery here in this memorandum summarizing his discussion with the Cuban leader on 19 April 1959. He has, Nixon says, "those indefinable qualities which make him a leader of men." But there was also much that disturbed him. Everything Castro did, from suspending elections to the execution of political opponents, he justifies as carrying out "the will of the people." "It was," Nixon says, "this almost slavish subservience to prevailing majority opinion--the voice of the mob--rather than his naove attitude toward Communism and his obvious lack of understanding of even the most elementary economic principles which concerned me most in evaluating what kind of a leader he might eventually turn out to be." There were, however, some points of agreement: "He indicated that it was very foolish for the United States to furnish arms to Cuba or any other Caribbean country." Arms, Castro said, "are only used to suppress people, as Batista used his arms to fight the revolution." America should provide investment capital instead. "I will have to admit," Nixon says, "that as far as his basic argument was concerned here I found little that I could disagree with!" Castro hit another nerve with Nixon when he pointed out that the American people--the citizens of the most powerful country on earth--were surprisingly uneasy and insecure: "Your people...should be proud and confident and happy," Castro told him. "But everyplace I go you seem to be afraid-afraid of Communism, afraid that if Cuba has land reform it will grow a little rice and the market for your rice will be reduced." Instead Americans "should be talking more about your own strength and the reasons why your system is superior to Communism." In his conclusion, Nixon says that because Castro has "the power to lead...we have no choice but at least to try to orient him in the right direction."
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