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Q-etitew: 7-17-68) t The ‘The Washington Merry-Go-Round Merry-Go-Round inisters in Brussels to attend 4 4 By Drew Goll, * NATO 20th anniversary cele. at ’ Relations between the Presi-fpration in Washington next - dent and President-elect, hith- eptember. He also has taken up with erto more cordial than be- Nixon every detail of the Paris tween any other incoming and /tsiks, and instructed Ambassa- outgoing Presidents, were dis-|aor Averell Harriman to call rupted when Nixon moved in)on the President-elect to fill on, the question of continuing|him in further. No step has Chief Justice Earl Warren been taken in the Vietnam ne- without any consultation with |gotiations without informing President Johnson whatsoever. Nixon. Nixon’s move had the ®ar-) The President also informed arks of a quick double play/the President-elect in some de- tail regarding his talks with ment of former Justice Arthur |Soviet Premier Kosygin and idberg as Chief Justice. his hopes to have one final President Johnsen has on/summit conference. He even his desk right now the resigna-|invited Nixon to accompany tion of Chief Justice Warren|him to Europe, if the talks subject to action st any time.;were held. He’ can and still may act on it} No President in half a cen- right up until neon of Jan. 20,|tury has been more coopera. And he had been debating;tive toward the new Adminls- such action when out of the (tation, even ordering 17 clear blue, the President-elect State Department sal 48 phoned Chief Justice Warren | Placed at ‘Nixon's disposa : . hours after the election— ee ee ilies head rooms which are still largely Obviously twas not Nixon's ungceupled. of this there is preogative to do this and, fur- come belief that Nixon valled thermore, both protocol and tine Chief Justice deliberate! urtesy reqnired him to call]. e er wustice oe Hf co ; in order to head off the Presi- the President in advance of fioni's plan to appoint Gold- his request to Warren. John- berg as Chief Justice. Mr. son has leaned over backward Ijohnson had been considering to clear with Nixon all ques-Tinis idea ever since his nomi- tions of policy which affectInation of Justice Abe Fortas the country during this in- [for Chief Justice was turned m per’ down by the Senate. He was He cleared. with Nixon be- mot unmindful of the fact that forehand the relatively minor early as last July Chief matter of the invitation hich eretary of State Rusk con- \feytee the NATO foreign ‘Nixon Call to W ixon, Call to we U Tadercu EBI propose a@ successor, then dis-| creetly pointed out that the Middle West had no represen- tation on the Court and that Goldberg, who comes from Chicago, would make a great Chief Justice. While the President put his old friend Fortas first on his list, he did not forget Gold- berg. Goldberg served as Sec- retary of Labor in the Ken- nedy Cabinet, then on the Su- preme Court, then agreed to resign to tackle the tough problems of Vietnam peace at the U.N, In the course of considering Goldberg’s nomination as Chief Justice, the President mentioned it to Nixon during their November luncheon. Nixon was non-committed. The appointment was delayed chiefly because: the President was seriously considering call- ing the Senate into special ses- sion to act upon the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, at which time he planned to ask for Goldberg's confirmation as Chief Justice. . Meanwhile several high- ranking Republicans had urged Nixon to go along with Goldberg's appointment, in- eluding former Attorney Gen- eral Herbert Brownell and Max Fisher of Detroit, one of the biggest money raisers for the Nixon campaign, It was against this back- ground that the President- elect put in his private call to hief Justige SoH on the opposite side on Whe a ~Basubpican fe ‘am ‘Nixon, was caught ‘aurpride. ixon had sabotaged Warren's Ad for the Presidency in 1982 t the GOP convention. The ‘have. Bot. been oordis "go-Wrew the CREP TL tise Date Ison ee Loach vw Mohr Bishop Caspet Callahan Contad Felt Iygaie Vet vy <—— totter —__ ele. Room Holmes ____-_SSs Gandy —_——_____- eeetine fe The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Wash ington} Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York? New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Joumal The National Observer People's World Examiner (Washington! EH Deu ete Be. coe ee Nor Pees ep 4