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By EUGENE McCARTHY Rappahannock News Guest Columnist
Although eight recent presidents of the United States have, beginning with president Eisenhower, all said that they were giving new meaning to the vicepresidency, that new meaning has been difficult to see or to identify in most administrations. However, one aspect of function of the newly conceived office has been made clearer in an article on a former vice-president in a recent issue of The New York Times.
The vice-president, according to the Times, was a much stronger vice-president than, generally pictured, forceful, almost violent when occasion required.
The precedent for this vice-presidential role was established by Richard Nixon, who as vice-president to President Eisenhower, confronted the head of the Russian government, Nikita Khrushev, in Khrushev’s own country, even in Khrushev’s own kitchen. And Nixon had pictures as proof and support. There was Richard in the kitchen, waggling, it seemed, his fingers at the point of Nikita’s nose. Nixon may only have been pointing, since the photo was taken with a still camera. Nikita did not seem to be intimidated, or even diseomfitted, but rather irritated, if not angry, but not to the point of taking off his shoe and beating on his own formica. Richard Nixon treasured the picture and used it as a prop in his presidential campaigns.
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