Editing Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (section)

== 1960 vice presidential campaign ==
[[File:President John F. Kennedy meets with Henry Cabot Lodge, Director General of The Atlantic Institute.jpg|thumb|right|President John F. Kennedy meets with Director General of the [[Atlantic Institute]], Henry Cabot Lodge, in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C., 1961.]]{{See also|1960 Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection|1960 United States presidential election}}
Lodge left the UN ambassadorship, turning over his seat to Deputy Chief Jerry Wadsworth during the [[1960 U.S. presidential election|election of 1960]] to run for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] on the Republican ticket headed by [[Richard Nixon]], against Lodge's old foe, John F. Kennedy. Before choosing Lodge, Nixon had also considered Representative [[Walter Judd (politician)|Walter Judd]] of [[Minnesota]] and Senator [[Thruston B. Morton]] of [[Kentucky]].<ref name="piet">{{cite book |last1=Pietrusza |first1=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq4c9XDOSxQC&q=nixon+lodge+1960 |title=1960: LBJ Vs. JFK Vs. Nixon : the Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies |date=2008 |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company |isbn=9781402761140 |pages=225–230 |accessdate=6 October 2015}}</ref> Eisenhower had supported the choice of Lodge.<ref name="donaldson2">{{cite book |last1=Donaldson |first1=Gary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxolK9z1zh0C&q=nixon+lodge+1960 |title=The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 |date=2007 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9780742548008 |pages=90–91 |accessdate=6 October 2015}}</ref> Nixon finally settled on Lodge in the mistaken hope that Lodge's presence on the ticket would force Kennedy to divert time and resources to securing his Massachusetts base, but Kennedy won his home state handily. Nixon also felt that the name Lodge had made for himself in the United Nations as a foreign policy expert would prove useful against the relatively inexperienced Kennedy.<ref name="donaldson2" /> Nixon and Lodge lost the election in a razor-thin vote.

The choice of Lodge proved to be questionable. He did not carry his home state for Nixon. Also, some conservative Republicans charged that Lodge had cost the ticket votes, particularly in the South, by his pledge (made without Nixon's approval) that if elected, Nixon would name at least one African American to a [[Cabinet of the United States|Cabinet]] post.{{sfn|White|2009|p=297}} He suggested appointing the diplomat [[Ralph Bunche]] as a "wonderful idea".<ref>''[[The New York Times]]'', October 14, 1960</ref> Nixon was furious at Lodge for this pledge, and accused him of spending too much time campaigning with minority groups, instead of the white majority.{{sfn|White|2009|p=297}} One Republican from West Virginia said of Lodge's speech: "Whoever recommended that Harlem speech should have been thrown out of an airplane at 25,000 feet".{{sfn|White|2009|p=297}}

Between 1961 and 1962, Lodge was the first director-general of the [[Atlantic Institute]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.nato.int/acad/fellow/96-98/small.pdf
|title=The Atlantic Council—The Early Years
|author=[[Melvin Small]]
|date=June 1, 1998
|publisher=NATO}}</ref>