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responsibilities as vice president. He rejects the claims that Ike
wanted someone other than Nixon as his running mate in 1952,
and also in 1956. True, the discovery by Democrats of a secret
fund set up by wealthy Nixon supporters to defray his campaign
expenses did jeopardize his selection in 1952, but his powerful
self-defense in a television speech impressed Eisenhower with
his courage and secured his place on the ticket.
It is also true that in 1956 Eisenhower urged Nixon to accept
a cabinet appointment as secretary of defense, rather than continue as vice president. But, Gellman argues, that was because Ike
was grooming him to be his successor and thought that running
an executive department would give him more "depth." When
Nixon turned down the suggestion because he thought it would
look like a demotion, Ike accepted the decision and kept him as
his running mate.
The President and the Apprentice is chiefly devoted to showing
that Nixon had "more responsibility and more authority than any
vice president before him." Eisenhower had been so shocked by
how unprepared Harry S. Truman had been to assume the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death that he was determined
to keep Nixon informed of most of the decisions made in the
White House. Nixon attended weekly meetings of the cabinet
and the National Security Council and chaired them when Eisenhower was absent. He also met with foreign dignitaries when Ike
couldn't attend and went on fact-finding trips to East Asia, the
Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. According to Gellman,
those trips turned Nixon into a valued consultant on foreign policy for Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, the secretary of state.
Furthermore, because Ike disliked politics and politicians, Nixon
was delegated to deal with congressmen and party officials. At
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