Nov. 21, 1963 | Richard Nixon Remarks on President Kennedy

Nov. 21, 1963 - Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, on a business trip to Dallas, Texas, a city President Kennedy visits tomorrow, said today that the 1964 Republican nominee must beat Mr. Kennedy on his record, not on personalities. “President Kennedy’s public relations is tremendous,” Mr. Nixon said. “But his performance is poor.” Mr. Nixon said the Republican nominee must attack Mr. Kennedy on his record of non-achievement, his “brave talk but no action,” the deterioration of foreign policy toward Latin America and Southeast Asia, and “what is apparently our permanent unemployment.” Mr. Nixon said Mr. Kennedy’s failure to handle Congress, where he has a 2-1 majority, “shows his lack of leadership much better than anything else.” Mr. Nixon again denied he would seek the Republican nomination, but he said: “I am going to work as hard as I can to get the Kennedys out of there. We can’t afford four more years of that kind of Administration.”

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