ABSTRACT
For a man whose statesman-hero of the nineteenth century was Benjamin Disraeli; whose hero as a lawyer, especially on the right to privacy, was Louis Brandeis; whose model of a strict constructionist Supreme Court Justice was Felix Frankfurter; whose favorite writer of fiction was Herman Wouk; who, upon becoming President, named a German Jewish immigrant named Henry Kissinger to be his foremost foreign policy adviser and an Austrian Jewish immigrant named Arthur Burns to be his chief domestic counselor; who later placed one Jew, Herbert Stein, at the head of the Council of Economic Advisers, and another, Leonard Garment, at the head of his double-every-year commitment to the arts and humanities, and named another, Ed David, to be his chief science adviser; for such a man, in the midst of a popular landslide against an opponent weak on the two issues most critical to the Jewish community, to win nearly four out of ten votes cast by Jews is amazing—amazing not that he won only four, but that he won as many as four, almost double his total in 1960 and 1968, since—as everyone used to say—Jews don’t trust Nixon.
