Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver, began spreading the word of Eisenhower's growing strength, got some Californians to let Warren know that they would stick with him only in the first ballot, then swing to Ike. The threatened rebellion never came off, because Eisenhower got the nomination on the first ballot. But Earl Warren, bitterly disappointed, according to one friend, "to his dying day will believe that Nixon sold...
...Tribune, to David Maxwell, then president of the A.B.A.: "If you let that fellow in, count me out." The A.B.A. board of governors studied the unusual situation, decided not to issue the invitation to the Vice President because it had already invited and had the formal acceptance of Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States...
RICHARD NIXON: A POLITICAL AND PERSONAL PORTRAIT (309 pp.)-Earl Mazo -Harper...
...animosity toward Nixon harbored by his opponents has long been bitter and somewhat mystifying. In this biography, already distinguished for having drawn the wrath of Chief Justice Earl Warren (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), New York Herald Tribune Reporter Earl Mazo recalls that when Nixon gave the 1954 commencement address at Whittier College, two separate receiving lines were necessary-for those who were ready to shake Nixon's hand and for those who refused to. This book, which is basically friendly toward Nixon, may switch some readers from the non-handshaking to the handshaking column. But most of all, what...
...Letter. Nixon may well face another conflict when Nelson Rockefeller tries to take the 1960 Republican nomination, and no reporter-not even one as able as Earl Mazo-can say how Nixon really feels about that. The Vice President is saying all the right things ("The times may require and demand a man with different qualifications"). More to the point may be another remark: "I never in my life wanted to be left behind...