After meeting privately with Nixon at Whitehall, the British foreign secretary, Selwyn Lloyd, wrote a memo-to-file: After Dulles’s ponderous evasions, Nixon’s incisive frankness was a great relief. He has a first class mind backed up by a masterly understanding of the world scene….The president’s deputy does not appear to be, as was sometimes feared, a kind of political ogre without principle or integrity, but rather a tough politician who possesses common sense as well as formidable energy, charm, and a lively intelligence…if he succeeds Eisenhower, the world will have nothing to worry about.
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