Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
CALIFORNIA
Nixon Faces Double Challenge
In Clearing Path to Governorship
Continued Frnm Pare

Continued From Page Al
Thomas Kuehel and in con-
gressional primary battles be-
tween two John Birch Society
Representatives and their foes.
The former Vice President is
convinced that if the forces of
the far right become dominant
in the Republican Party, the
voters of the country will and
should reject its credentials for
national leadership.
Further, he believes nothing
Is more important to the fu-
ture Of the COP. than the
election Of Republican COVER
nors this year in California,
Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York. He thinks
powerful State leaders are
more likely than the spokesman
for the Republican minorities
in Congress to provide the
backbone of resistance to the
national Democratic admins
tration-and the demonstra-
ton that Republicans do, in
fact, have alternatives to offer.
Heavy Burden
When these reasons are
added to his obvious personal
ambition to regain a position
Of leadership and responsible
ity, there is little mystery about
what motivateS Mr.. Nixon to
face again the terrible physical
and psychic attrition Of the
campaign trail.
AS usual, he is sparing him.
self nothing and as usual, Mrs.
Nixon is alongside to share the
travail.
Yesterday, they began their
work at a store front head
quarters in a Negro neighbor-
hood of Los Angeles. There Mr..
Nixon expressed his distress at =
the "racism in reverse" of the
Black Muslin movement and r
pledged to find positive an q
Swers" to Negro needs through 4
an intensive employment OPP C
portunity program. d
From there, they sped down t
the crowded freeways to Santa r
Ana, where he gave a "nonpar- v
tiSan" talk, centering on for c
eign affairs, to 500 men at a
combined service clubs lunch ;,
con. His speech was reminis- =
cent of many in the 1860 cam p
paign-even to the familiar is
tale Of the emotional reception il
the Nixons received from the C
people Of Warsaw during his o
visit to Poland in 1859. h
Attend Reception
Then he rejoined Mrs. Nixon
for a reception in the patio of -
the elegant home of q wealthy 8
Santa Ana supporter. For al =,
most two hours, the candidate =
and his wife stood in the hot
sun shaking hands with a pa
rade Of women in lowered hats
and pastel frocks.
Next, a half-hour flight to
San Diego, for a pep talk to
precinct workers at his head
quarters there, then a return
flight to Los Angeles and q din
ner and speech in a high school
auditorium. And finally, a
closed-door strategy meeting to
lay out plans for the young
men-virtually all except Mr..
Haldeman. political novices- {
who are stating the campaign |
this year. g
Mr.. Nixon has been going at v
this page since January. His v
crowds have been big-a fact Z
which he himself attributes r
more to his celebrity status on ''
the national scene than to the C
interest in his gubernatorial il
race. He has pursued the ex- r
hausting handshaking routine, u
largely to offset the belief, gen.. t
Grated by criticisms of his 1860 Q
campaign, that his years of
power in Washington had made r
him aloof, remote and generally r
Isolated from the common peo- I
pie. !
Large Vote Sought
A secondary purpose has (
been to stimulate a large vote !
In the primary. A month or so I
ago. the Nixon strategists be- h
came alarmed at the evidence
OF mounting support for Mr.. I,
Shell. They began to fear that
IN a small turnout. the angry
conservatives might roll up
more than 40 per cent of the
vote against the former vice
president.
In the past week. they have
begun to shade their estimates
back down toward the 20 per
cent mark that most observers
here put as a minimum figure
Tor the conservative bloc in the
primary.
The Nixonites think Mr.. Shell