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THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. .c National Security Council Discusses Life-Or-Death Issues in Secret Meetings Bt RUTHERFORD POATS United Preis International Washington IUPD -What should the United States do about the emergence in neighboring Cuba of a police state allied with Russia? Should the United States drop atomic bombs again in Asia if communist China at tacks the Nationalist Chinese islands, including the offshore Quemoys and Matsus? Should the western world defend against a communist political and military squeeze? If this showdown comes, should or could a Korea-type, non-atomic defensive war be fought by the western allies to keep West Berlin free? Or should atomic retaliation against Moscow be threatened to scare off a communist ad venture? What lesser threat might be made or implied? These may or may not be questions on the agenda of the U.S. National Security Council. But they are the kind of life-or-death issues which often are debated in this super-cabinet's secret ses sions. Some of the secrecy was lifted in a continuing senate investigation of NSC't role in American policy making. Those seldom-used initials -NSC - also are being heard more often because they fig ure in Vice President Richard M. Nixon's Republican cam paign for the presidency. Nixon has been a member of the select NSC circle, and this is a big factor in his claim to be the most experienced man available to take over the reins from President Eis enhower next January in a time of great peril. Democratic critecs contend that Eisenhower has used the National Security Council and its planning board to relieve himself of most of the burden of thinking out the great is- Backstairs: Ike Finally Decides To Make Speeches In Behalf of Dick Nixon By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington - IUPD - Thank goodness President Eisenhow er finally has decided to make a political speech or two in behalf of Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon. He says he will speak at Republican fund raising dinner in Chicago, Sept. 29. He will talk for Nixon again on the eve of election day. It had looked for a while like all Ike's campaigning for the GOP ticket was going to be the non-political kind. He and his press secretary, James C. Hagerty, have tried repeatedly to explain to re porters how this type of cam paigning works. The way the President puts It, he won't actually do much campaigning. But he will be out a lot making non-political speeches between now and Nov. 8. He always smiles when he says this. Just a few morning ago, Hagerty, who has proved his ability to explain anything from the federal budget to ileitis, was further trying to straighten us out,. ... He said the President would make three non - political speeches on Sept. 26. Ike will fly that morning to Phila delphia to address some ac countants and educators. And he will proceed to New York to speak that night to a char ity dinner. That afternoon Hagerty was out of the office. His assist ant. Mrs. Anne Whcaton, took over his chores. Somebody asked her whether the White House was ready to announce yet any of the President's plans for political speeches. "None beyond those Mr. Hagerty told you about this morning, she replied. Honest, open-faced we call her. Anne, One reason the President doesn't feel the need to get out on the hustings, as he puts It, is that a president can always hold a press confer ence. Eisenhower has held three in three weeks since re turning from his vacation in Newport, R.I. In some non-elections years he hasn't displayed quite this enthusiasm for give and take with the press. He sometimes has gone for weeks without giving out his views in this way. President Truman, in his seven years at the White Hose, met the press 324 times. FDR, in a little over 12 years held 998 press conferences. Ike this week held his 189th since taking office in January, 1953. He has explained on a couple of occasions why he doesn't set himself a regular schedule of, say, one press conference weekly. "I never like to conform too much," he said once,-" And just to say that one partic ular day each week I am go ing to be in the same exact spot the same exact time sort of puts me down. "Now I have no objection as long as we have got the time and something else isn't on my mind, I have no ob jection to doing it periodically." Another time he said it was partly a matter of whim. Be sides, he said he didn't like to be talking all the time, Currently, as I said, he seems to like talking. And you can look for him to do a lot more of it mostly non political in the best Anne Wheaton sense of the word of course between now and Nov. 8. sues facing the nation; that this reliance on staff work has insulated him from new ideas and controvery. A senate subcommittee un der Sen. Harry M. Jackson (Wash.), newly appointed chairman of the Democratic national committee, has been trying to find out whether the NSC and its related staff-coordinating machinery is gear ed to the speed and complex ity of basic survival issues facing the nation. Speculation among senior bureaucrats here about what kind of President Nixon or Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy would make often turns to how each might shake up the NSC operation. Not Much Known Yet few Americans, even in Washington, know much about the working of this body at the summit of U. S. policy-making. It is 13 years old, and its meeting times usually are an nounced by the White House. But what it discusses and what it recommends is al ways kept secret. The NSC is a sort of stream lined cabinet, limited to those top officials who deal with the inter-related military and diplomatic problems affect ing U.S. security. Ideally, its meetings are a vigorous, pertinent debate in front of and with the presi dent, providing him the facts he needs to make the policy decisions. The council now includes the president, vice president, secretaries of state, defense and treasury, the director of the office of civil and defense mobilization, the . budget di rector and the president's, spe cial assistant for security af fairs. Also included often are the director of the central in telligence agency, the chair man of the joint chiefs of staff and the director of the U. S. information agency. Policy Studies But the NSC is more than a weekly meeting of these officials. To make these meet ings with the president pro ductive, there are NSC staff groups to prepare the policy studies and to follow up the president s decisions to ' see that they are carried out and to judge their effectiveness. The presidential assistant for security affairs is the chairman of the NSC plan ning board, which is com posed of departmental offic ials of the assistant secretary level who speak for the de partments and agencies rep resented on the council. The planning board is as sisted by a small NSC policy coordinating staff, working under the presidential assist ant. Outside consultants from universities and business sometimes are called in to do studies and present fresh ideas to the planning board and through it to the NSC. The operations coordinating board supervises execution of the presidcntially approved NSC policy directives. 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