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( ws > August 22, 1960 ambra, ifornia Hon, Richard M,. Nixon c/o M Fite Charles x. McwWnoerter ANOS Legislative Assistant shane Office of the Vice President ALL Tin N CONTAINED REERELN is UNCLA SOLFLED Washington 25, D. C. DATE DOs NNN ALO Dear Vice President Nixon: Re: Connally Amendment — Loyalty Oath — SUPREME COURT Ts agand ba Tathae AP Teme £ TOL TT am alan needa be haere ban at PSRSTG UG 2SUUGT O14 vlulis Vy BTV, 4 Al Diep isy UO GVGS OSGi fooled by Senator Johnson. I should have been cognizant of his voting record before making such a rash statement with regard to him. I have since learned his voting record is one point below Senator Kennedy's, which is very low. Also that he used his position as leader of the South to blackmail his way onto the ticket for Vice President (See signed AP article, publisher John 5, Knight, of Knight Newspapers, eae) statement is in regard to vonmeen and the Vice Presidency, only e f. i a CONNALLY RESERVATION The material you enclosed was helpful and interesting. However, I am not a politician and will not attempt to answer as such. I am concerned with the lack of leadership in our country. Leadership which would conserve and protect our country, not give it. away inchmeal, I know you and I do not agree concerning the Connally Amendment, but surely you know that this sneak abandonment of the Connolly Reservation was instigated, in my opinion, by ome or more persona Jn the State Department, "This whole back=door abandonment of the CONNALLY RESERVATION has been rushed through the Senate without debate and even without printed records for the Senators themselves," (Guardians Of Our American Heritage, July 1960, Vol. IX, No. 69). The vote on the protocol, the executive N of the Annex V, on compulsory settlement of disputes with regard to "The Law of the Sea" is still to be brought before the Senators, YOU SHOULD BE TAKING THE LEAD to inform the Senate the abandoment of the Connolly Reservation will mean the World Court could teil Us, in effect, to vacate our Naval Base a ae, tobe nbn eh oo Bees at nmawt A AnatAa in Cuba j it could order tne United States out of Panama; sh ee to whom the mineral deposits along our coast belong; it could control any- thing connected with the seas, including the territorial seas and contig- uous zones, There cannot be a World Court in the trus sense, until thers 1 is a common judicial denominator., sf oD a . / apy ht ey KE Penk LOYALTY OATH i _ It seems to me the need of the Loyalty Oath has been very definitely } ir: Pa i] ENCLOSURB