The Detroit Tribune

Life Endorses Nixon

NEW YORK-LIFE Magazine completed its two-part endorsement of Richard M. Nixon for the Presidency.

The magazine, which last week announced its support of the Vice-President's domestic program, in its current issue urges the election of the Nixon-Lodge ticket on the basis of foreign policy.

In an editorial, the magazine noted that in contrast with their stand on domestic problems the difference between the two candidates on world policy was "narrow and the choice not easy".

The magazine said, however, that with Nixon and Lodge in charge of US world policy "we shall feel both safer and more hopeful in the enlarging struggle."

LIFE praised the record of the Eisenhower Administration as being "marked successful" in its conduct of world affairs and said that Nixon "is quite right to take pride in this Eisenhower record, and to claim it as a Republican achievement."

The editorial said that the Republicans "have kept the peace without any serious losses in any place that our arms or influence could reach." It added that this record is "particularly good in contrast with the preceding seven Democratic years, which were years of great Communist gains in Asia and Eastern Europe and"

LIFE criticized what it called the "nervous fringe" or liberal wing of the Democratic Party "whose internationalism takes the form of fogginess in general, or gullibility about Communism in particular".

The magazine said that Nixon's policies would be an advance beyond those of Eisenhower "in the direction of toughness, determination and creative imagination." It said that this would be an advance "with continuity, rooted in the Eisenhower balance that has kept peace and freedom safe this far."

The editorial noted that Senator Kennedy had "personal style and eloquence," which it termed "great assets for a free world leader," but that he has failed to show that his "foreign aims and programs are clearly superior to Nixon's."