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NIXON
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park. traditional site of DO
litical rallies.
Jacksonville and surrounding
Duval County are heavily
Democratic. The Nixon rally
there today was sponsored by
Floridians for Nixon, successor
to the 1852 and 1856 Demo-
Gratis for Eisenhower who failed
to carry either the city or
county.
Share JackSOn's Views
Declaring that the require
ments for leadership in these
times Is more important than
any party, Mr.. Nixon said.
What counts is what is best
for America and that's how
we should vote"
He added that he and his
running mate, Henry Cabot
Lodge, and the Republican
platform are more in accord
with views of Andrew Jackson,
for whom Jacksonville is
named. than are their Demo-
cratic rivals.
Mr.. Nixon based his appeal
for votes for the Republican
ticket in the county where the
voting registration is over
whelmingly Democratic on an
assertion that he and Mr..
Lodge are better qualified by
experience than their oppo-
nentS.
He asserted that the Ameri-
can people can't be fooled by
a lot of double talk" in criti-
cism of the Eisenhower Nixon
administration record.
Much of his Jacksonville talk
was what has become the
standard" Nixon campaign
speech.
Touching briefly on the
Quemoy- -MatSu issue, he said
Senator Kennedy's statement
that he wanted to draw a
line" excluding those islands
from American defense "is an
invitation" to war.
Mr.. Nixon asserted he and
Mr.. Lodge stand for "firmness"
in American foreign policy that
will assure peace" On the
other hand, he said weakness
militarily or automatically
would lead to war.
Mr.. Nixon was expected to
hit back in a Miami speech
late today at charges by his
Democratic opponent, that Eli
Senhower-Nixon policies are to
blame for Cuba becoming a
Communist outpost just 90
miles of Florida's southern
shores.
Address the Legion
But he kept his precise tao
tics for the Miami appearance
flexible because he was speak
ing to the American Legion
Convention there just an hour
after Senator Kennedy ad-
dressed the same convention.
The Vice President opened
the crucial final three weeks
Of the election campaign yes
terday with his hardest-hitting
assaults yet upon his Demo-
cratic rival for the presidency.
He used such words as glib
double talk" rash" danger
Gus immaturity," inconsistency"
and weakness" in attacking
Senator Kennedy on foreign
policy.
The bitter words fired by Mr..
Nixon during three speeches
in Connecticut yesterday and
two in Buffalo last night sig
nailed the kind of intensified"
campaigning he had promised
for the stretch drive, aimed at
persuading undecided voters to
cast their ballots for him No
vember 8.
He declared in Buffalo that
this final three weeks before
election day lis the time you
are going to separate the men
from the boys"
He came out at Buffalo with
a vigorous declaration that if
he is elected President Com
munist China won't get into
the United Nations until it
changes its spots"
Calls for DiSavOwal
He called upon Senator Ken
nedy to disavow statement ne
attributed to Adlai Stevenson,
one of the Senator's top foreign
policy advisers, favoring a
trade" with the Chinese Reds
in which the United States
would support their admission
to the U. N. in exchange for a
worthless guarantee of freedom
for Fcrmosa."
Mr.. Nixon said such a deal
would be trading "a horse for a
rabbi" because Formosa al
ready is free and Communist
China isn't in the U. N.
Senator Kennedy has said he