ABSTRACT
An old Republican professional hand named Victor Johnston had been working hard rounding up pro-Nixon signatures from more than eight hundred delegates or prospective delegates, a number far beyond what would be needed at San Francisco. International insensitivity, obsession with trimming defense budgets and standing armies, insufficient attention to guided-missile development and space satellite research and myopia about the appeal of communism to backward and exploited peoples, they charged, were furthering Russian gains and weakening American prestige. When the American Friends Service Committee worked with the city’s leading business executives to end inequality, the Administration gave its support. White House staff members concerned with improving the Uves of American Negroes found the President humanely sympathetic, aware of the increasing gravity of the problem and emphatic about eliminating discrimination among federal employees.
