Evening star., 1960-06-10
NEWS CONFERENCE TEXT IN PART
Nixon Says He Has Stated His Views Amply

some significant differences
with current administration
policy on many of these issues?
A. I went to make one thing
very clear: I have been a men,
ber Of this administration for
seven years and / am pr ,ud of
it and I think the record has
been the best record Of any ad-
miniStration in my lifetime. /
believe that as far as the pol
icies and program of this ad-
ministration. they have serveN
the best interests Of the Ameri-
can people and rather than
running away from this record
I intend to run on the record
and to build on the record.
To go to the heart of this
question, do I intend to advo-
cate simply those things that
we have done up to this time,
and the answer is, Of course
not. The times change. The
problems of the SOS are going
to be different from the prob
lens of the SOS, and as a can
didate for the presidency it
will be my responsibility to
present to the American peo-
pile those new policies that are
necessary to meet the problems
of the SOS. based on and build
ing from what I believe to be
the sound policies and pro-
grams of this administration.
Differs on Steel
@. Gov. Rockefeller in ef-
fect-let me read you what he
says here: This settlement
carefully postponed until after
the next election day the cost
of its consequence, a rise in
steel cost of 81 billion annu-
ally. For this the public must
pay the price.
Do you agree with that, that
the cost of steel went up 81
billion?
A. I do not agree with that.
I would only suggest that in
December it was Gov. Rookie
feller who on a national radio
television program publicly
asked the question why the
Vice President didn't settle the
steel strike.
I thought he meant what he
said and, Of course, did pro-
coed to settle it. Under the
circumstances. speaking seri-
ously. because I recognize the
context in which he made that
proposal was one in which he
was being questioned by re-
porters, and 1t is possible that
he had not realized had al
ready been participating in the
negotiations for settlement.
believe that the steel set
tlement was in the best in
terests of the American people
and under the circumstances
was certainly far better than
to have the strike continue.
and I am confident that had
we not settled the steel differ
enceS, the steel strike, at that
time in that amount, that the
cost, of settlement would have
gone up. because what would
have happened is that the
union would have won the elec-
ton under the Taft-Hartley
Act and the price would have
to go UP.
@. Gov. Rockefeller was crit
ical of the way some Govern
ment agencies performed in
the U-2 incident. He said the
Government should become
more modern in its views. Do
you agree with this?
A. With regard to the han
ding of the U-2 incident I will
not engage in a Monday morn
ing quarterbacking about the
decisions made by Douglas Dill
Ion and the Secretary of De-
fenSe and others at the time
that they were under very
great pressure and at a time
when they didn't know what
the circumstances were and
felt that some position had to
be taken that was consistent
with our national security.
I think the President has
well answered the critics, in
cluding Gov. Rockefeller, if he
is a critic, about the U-2 in his
television broadcast. I will not
go beyond that.