NOMINEE FOR VEEP

Nominated for Vice President of the U.S. by the Republican National Convention: RICHARD (DICK) MILHOUS NIXON.

Parentage: Born Jan. 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, Calif., a small (present pop. 885), citrus-growing town near Los Angeles, to Frank (Scotch-Irish ancestry) and Hannah Milhous Nixon (Irish-English), who migrated from the Middle West to California in their youth, married in 1908, are still hale & hearty. Father worked as streetcar motorman, oilfield worker, rancher, built filling station at Whittier, Calif., later added a grocery store, now known as Nixon's Market and run by Dick's younger brother Don.

Childhood: Grew up in Whittier, about 15 miles from Los Angeles, worked in father's gas station, delivered groceries. Favorite family anecdote: when Nixon was a boy, he read about the Teapot Dome scandal in the papers, told his mother: "When I get big, I'll be a lawyer they can't bribe."

Education: Public schools, Whittier College (A.B. 1934), Duke University Law School (LL.B. 1937). Specialized in history, political science, constitutional and administrative law, was good debater.

Early Career: Practiced law in Whittier, 1937-42. For seven months, attorney with Washington's Office of Emergency Management, working to unify U.S. rationing rules. Commissioned in Navy, 1942, lieutenant (j.g.). Served in South Pacific as ground officer for Combat Air Transport Command, 1943-44; commended by Secretary of Navy for administrative work after V-J day; discharged as lieutenant commander, 1946.

Political Debut: In 1946, while Nixon was awaiting discharge at Baltimore, Md., a citizen's committee in California's 12th District ran a newspaper ad seeking a young man willing to run against New Deal Congressman Jerry Voorhis. A friend submitted Nixon's name. There were three other applicants. Nixon got the job, beat Voorhis by 15,592 votes. Re-elected to Congress, 1948; elected to Senate, 1950, in bitter campaign against his fellow member of Congress, New Dealing Helen Gahagan Douglas.

Record in Congress: Made national reputation as able, dogged, unhysterical investigator of Communism. As member of House Un-American Activities Committee, presented the cases against Gerhard Eisler and Eugene Dennis, 1947; took part in investigation of Communism in Hollywood; co-author of Mundt-Nixon Bill requiring registration of Communists. Was largely responsible for resolute pursuit of Hiss investigation, repeatedly saved the case from being dropped by going out himself and digging up facts. Said Whittaker Chambers in Witness: "Richard Nixon made the Hiss Case possible." Nixon, however, is no McCarthyite (he did not applaud McCarthy's speech to the convention), is favoring legislation giving witnesses at investigations a better break. He has also been active in Senate investigations of Government corruption, and publicly called for the resignation of Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson when Gabrielson was accused of using his influence to get an RFC loan for a company of which he is president.

Foreign Policy: Roughly, with Eisenhower on Europe, with Taft on Asia. Supported Marshall Plan, NATO, military aid program, voted against cutting foreign aid bill. Vigorously attacks Administration's disastrous mistakes in Asia, advocates vigorous pursuit of Korean war or else getting out.

Domestic Policy: Describes himself as a moderate conservative, is on record for: Taft-Hartley, voluntary price curbs, FEPC, giving Congress access to secret Government files. Against: the poll tax, socialized medicine, Brannan Plan, federal ownership of the tidelands, Harry Truman's seizure of the steel mills.

Family: Married (1940) to Patricia Ryan, 39, petite, pretty, former high-school teacher (business law, bookkeeping, typing), who helps Nixon out as an unpaid secretary. (Says he: "My wife was a Democrat when I married her, and didn't become a Republican until after I was elected to Congress.") Two daughters, Patricia, 6, Julie, 4. (Patricia used to have a shine on little David Kefauver, 6, who lives up the block from their Washington home.)

Religion: Nixon is a birthright Quaker. His wife, a lifelong Protestant, says: "I go along with him."

Personal Characteristics: Hardworking, earnest, generally liked by his senior colleagues in the Senate, deeply religious. Rarely smokes or takes a drink, is a tireless, hard-hitting campaigner, looks good on TV. Says his former football coach at Whittier: "He was a second-string man. He played tackle and he played it well, but the kid was just too light. Weeks would go by and he wouldn't ever play a minute, but he'd hardly ever miss practice, and he worked hard. He was wonderful for morale, because he'd sit there and cheer the rest of the guys, and tell them how well they'd played. To sit on the bench for four years isn't easy. I always figure, especially in the case of Dick, who excelled in everything else, that kids like that have more guts than the first-string heroes. Dick, he would work even if he knew he wouldn't play. He'll be O.K. as Vice President."

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