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A good deal depended, of course, on the men themselves, and both Lodge and Nixon seized their opportunities. While Nixon traveled through 52 countries. Lodge battled endlessly with a series of Soviet adversaries ("I've heard them all," he once remarked. "I can only conclude that the man who writes the speeches is still the same"). While Nixon took on special presidential commissions and presided over the Cabinet in the days of Ike's illnesses. Lodge carefully steered the U.S. and the West through U.N. world tempests from Indo-China to Budapest to Suez. Nixon's tough, unflinching "kitchen conference" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow last summer was matched by Lodge's assignment as Khrushchev's official companion during his U.S. tour. (Khrushchev's favorite cry: "Where's my capitalist?") Both men have learned by first hand experience how to deal with Communists (drawing on his journalistic experience. Lodge always tries for a "prompt refutation" of every Red challenge for the next editions). Both have had to act, on occasion, on their own initiative and judgment. Says Lodge: ""When I am in doubt about what to do, I write out my own instructions and tell the State Department: 'This is what I'd like to be instructed to do."
The wives of both men have been im measurably helpful: as a constant companion on Dick Nixon's campaigns and world tours, Pat has been well informed, indefatigable and courageous ("She was braver than any man I ever saw," said a military aide after Caracas). Emily Lodge, receiving high-ranking guests with her mellowed husband in her cerise and white drawing room of their Waldorf Towers apartment, is a portrait of manner-born grace and warmth.
Together and separately, Nixon and Lodge have earned reputations as foreign policy experts second only to the Secretary of State and the President himself. The Eisenhower years have matured them and fitted them uniquely to face the big issue of U.S. policy in the tense world—the issue on which they will wage the Republican campaign of 1960.
*His older brother Harold died at 23 of tuberculosis; Arthur died at seven of tuberculous meningitis; Donald is a California dairyman, and Navyman Edward a military science instructor at the University of Washington. *Standing from left: A brother-in-law of Nixon's mother, Russell Harrison; sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward Nixon; brother, Navy Lieut. Edward Nixon; uncle, Dr. Ernest Nixon; aunt, Mrs. Oscar Marshburn; uncle, Oscar Marshburn; sister-in-law, Mrs. Donald Nixon; brother, Donald Nixon; Pat Nixon's sister-in-law, Mrs. William Ryan; brother-in-law, Matthew Bender; brother-in-law, William Ryan. Seated from left: Mother Hannah Nixon, Daughters Julie and Patricia, Wife Pat. † His equally handsome younger brother, John Davis Lodge, now Ambassador to Spain, was for a brief time a leading man in films. His sister, the Baroness Edouard de Streel, lives in Brussels.