Word: clement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower: A "genial, glamorous and affable general who had joined the Republican Party after he had reached the age of retirement from the Regular Army" (Clement); "he was born in the district that I represent, and everybody down there that remembers him says he was a good baby. Then he moved off to Kansas, and after he is 60 years of age, he decided he'd be a Republican" (Texas' Sam Rayburn); "he cannot Hagertize his way through this whole campaign" (Clement...
Nixon: "The vice hatchetman" of the Republican Party (Clement); "the chief function of the Vice President should not be that of a political sharpshooter for his party. It should not be that of providing the smear under the protection of the President's smile" (Candidate Estes Ke-fauver); "the White House pet midget, Moby Dick Nixon and his whale † of a pup, Checkers" (Kerr...
Dulles: "Unquestionably the greatest unguided missile in the history of American diplomacy" (Clement); "Daredevil John Foster Dulles−world-famous escape artist with his breathtaking, death-defying brink-of-war act" (Kerr...
After the huzzas and groans of the Democratic Convention in Chicago (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) died away, there was almost unanimous agreement that the Democrats' choicest doll is Lucille Clement, wife of Tennessee's give-'em-hellfire Governor Frank G. Clement, the convention's bombastic keynoter. Mother of three boys, Lucille, 36, whose figure is one of modern polities' most attractive gerrymanders, took time out to model some cute creations for a Hearst lensman...
...relentless camera magnified the trivia and underlined the fluffs, caught the convention's heights and hollows−;and its occasional signs of petulance and flippancy−Truman dressing down a reporter who was badgering him for an interview; Tennessee's Governor Clement hamming it up for photographers; Paul Butler boiling mad over CBS's failure to run a documentary film (see PRESS...