Soon to Decide
Photograph
Soon to Decide
1960
Gelatin silver print, printed 1961
Image: 9 7/16 × 6 3/8 in. (23.9 × 16.2 cm)
Paper: 10 × 7 15/16 in. (25.4 × 20.2 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0528
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 9/61 27) SOON TO DECIDE, Richard Nixon confronts a big question. \ The issue: to run or not to run for Governor of California. The \ alternative: to assume the role of "younger statesman" and lead \ the Republican party from his position as private citizen. This \ picture, taken in his office in the Capitol during the 1960 Pres- \ idental campaign by Henri Cartier-Bresson, shows the then Vice- \ President in his role of decisive policy-maker. His decision will \ also affect another problem already rearing its head - that of the \ 1964 Presidential elections. \ Credit: Henri Cartier-Bresson © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
