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Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower's "goodwill ambassador," visiting 54 countries, and was the Administration's partisan gut fighter, traveling the "low road" during campaigns. (Nixon, as President, assigned that job to Spiro Agnew.) But when Ike was asked in 1960, "What major decisions has your Vice President participated in?" he replied: "If you give me a week, I might think of one." John Kennedy tried, at least initially, to employ Lyndon Johnson effectively. Kennedy saw to it that Johnson presided over National Security Council meetings, appointed him to head the President's Committee on Equal...
West Virginia's Republican Governor Arch Moore, who has been going to the White House as Congressman or Governor since the days of Dwight Eisenhower, came around for the President's courtesy meeting with the Executive Committee of the National Governors' Conference. Moore found himself swept along in congenial confusion through those sacred corridors of power in the White House. He paused at the Oval Office, then went on to the Cabinet Room. There was no agenda and Ford just came into the room with no fanfare and started to shake hands around the big table. "This...
...years later, at the age of 39, Nixon was nominated to be Dwight Eisenhower's running mate on the G.O.P. ticket. In The Making of the President 1960, Theodore White quoted a Republican strategist as explaining: "We took Dick Nixon not because he was right-wing or left-wing but because we were tired, and he came from California...
...Dwight James Worker, 28, a San Francisco clothing manufacturer, tried to hide coke in a body cast and was nabbed when a sharp-eyed Mexican customs official noted that he had trouble remembering which leg had the limp. Charles Richard Helms, 25, selected in a lottery by some of his classmates at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., to smuggle coke through Mexico, was caught with 2.6 kilos concealed under his bell-bottom trousers. Katherine Lou Simmons, 25, a Hollywood pianist, was arrested when officials discovered that her roundly curved belly was not a sign of pregnancy...
...take stands without regard I to party position or leadership preference. He backed President Truman when he vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, when he seized the nation's steel mills in an effort to forestall a strike and when he fired General Douglas MacArthur. Though Morse fervently supported Dwight Eisenhower for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1952, he became disillusioned by Ike's cautious civil rights stand and by his choice of Richard Nixon as a running mate. Switching to the Democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson, Morse bolted the Republican Party...