Evening star., 1960-06-09
ROCKEFELLER STATEMENT
Take Stand on Issues, Nixon Urged

r OttOUtng Us Lne teri OF
Gou. Nelson A. RockteIIer's
statement yesterday on the
Republican Party:
We have come to a time
that calls for plain talk.
It is a difficult and testing
time.
1t is so for the world-with
the forces of freedom challen-
ged as never before.
| 1t is so for the Nation-with
the hope and strength of free
dom everywhere reliant upon
us.
1t is so therefore for the Re-
publican Party--with the vigor
of our own democracy at stake.
The vitality and integrity of
the Republican Party, at so
critical a time as the present,
become matters of national con-
Germ. Without a two-party sys-
tenn that works with candor
and courage, the American Re-
public-the very processes of
democratic government - can
not work responsibility. Without
the Republican Party display
ing such candor and courage,
the two-party system cannot
work creatively.
A responsible patriotism thus
does not deny-but does de-
mand- a responsible partian-
ship. For the way a party
speaks and acts can - and
should - inspire the way a
nation speaks and acts.
l am deeply convinced, and
deeply concerned, that those
now assuming control of the
Republican Party have failed
to make clear where this party
is heading and where Il pro-
poses to lead the Nation.
Now is the time to face and
weigh these facts.
Praises Eisenhower
We. as Republicans, have
much to give us pride in our
history. This history reaches
from the principles of a Lin
coin to the principles of an
Eisenhower. No attack or abuse
from any quarter can diminish
it can only dramatize-the
dignity and the integrity of the
leadership that President Eisen-
hover has given to both Nation
and party.
This man who led us to VIC
tory over the Nazi menace has
Steadfastly faced the Commun-
ist tyranny in tireleSs pursuit
Of a peace. He thus has won
a place unique in our age and
in the hearts of free men every
where.
AS he lays down his burdens
this historic term of service
comes to it's end.
A new period now begins. II
summons new men. New prob
lens demand new ideas, new
actions.
Where do they begin?
They begin, l believe, with
this awareness: We cannot and
we must not confuse taking
pride in the past with taking
measure of the future.
The Future
What - and who - is this
future? It is a host Of men and
nations, problems and forces
to be ignored or evaded only at
deadly peril to our own national
life and freedom.
1t is: Nuclear power, either
serving to better lives and to
defend peoples-or serving to
shatter nations and shake the
planet.
1t is: The rise of new ma
tions across the earth, either
to learn and to enjoy the ways
OF freedom-or to suffer and
to serve the ways of tyranny.
1t is: A great technological
revolution changing the lives
Of all men, for better or for
worse, as it is disciplined and
directed.
Is is: An immensely complex
problem of national defense
for an exposed America - a
problem either to be resolved
by strong action or to be evaded
by strong slogans.
1t is: The need for the Ameri-
can economy to grow faster
to prove that freedom will not
become static or sterile, but
forever be fertile and creative
1t is: The proving by political
action Cor the disproving by
partisan evasion) that we dc
love and respect the dignity OF
man-as we assure civil rights
for all our people, education
for our young, health for oul
aged.
Assurance Needed
The people, confronting these
great and basic challenges, look
to their political parties.
They need an assurance
and a strategy-of national
purpose for the future.
I deeply believe they are
asking for this.
They cannot be answered.
by either political party-with
mere petty designs of partisan
maneuver.
The challenge this poses to
the Republican Party is made
more urgent by the state OF
the leadership of the Democra-
tic Party. This leadership can
inspire no citizen with great
hope. 1t has been confused and
uncertain. 1t has seemed to
answer-it has mechanically