Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happened in Texas is only one detail of the unsung political phenomenon of 1956: the widespread realization that Richard Milhous Nixon is a prime national asset to the Republican Party, not only because of his political skill but also because of his genuine appeal to the U.S. electorate. By Nov. 6 the young (43) Vice President will have traveled 42,000 miles by airplane, train and car, will have made more than 150 campaign speeches in 36 states.* He has been a field strategist as well as a campaigner, firing back his analysis of what other G.O.P. campaigners...
...Without Horns. In view of the talent and tenacity that Dick Nixon has shown in ten years of dramatically successful political life, it was not surprising that he should be an effective campaigner in 1956. What surprised many political observers was his ability to become a shining asset-and not a liability-to the Republican cause. The victim of a concentrated assault unparalleled in recent U.S. political history, he first had to erase the black and distorted picture his foes had painted unceasingly for nearly eight years. One of his aides summed up the task: "We had to show...
...party participated, is taken as an encouraging sign by Democrats bent on recapturing Beacon Hill. With Democratic registration up 60,000 over 1952 and GOP totals down by 7,000, the Democrats are looking forward to an election in which their party regularity will be a significant asset. But the members of each faction total only 700,000 each in a constituency of two and a half million registered voters, so the independent--who in Massachusetts is typically the sought-after member of an ethnic group--will again be decisive in this Massachusetts election...
...perhaps its greatest asset is that it allows Coach Jordan to use Botsford, Joslin, and Stahura at the same time...
...Nixon burgeoned as a distinct G.OP. asset, he began more and more to take on Adlai Stevenson in debate (effectively overlooking Opposite Number Estes Kefauver). "You find corruption in either party," ran the tenor of his argument, "but we clean it up." And again, "Both the parties want to be good to our people, but we start with the individual and work up; they start with the Government and work down." In Philadelphia, Nixon termed Stevenson's stop-the-H-bomb-tests proposal "catastrophic nonsense." In Syracuse, N.Y., he jabbed at the "special-interests" tone of the Democratic campaign...