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...could destroy Nixon with a word was warning by phone that the use of words like "bold" and "new" in the defense plank of the platform would be "falling into a trap." The statements. Ike said, were the unmistakable handiwork of his own former speechwriter, Emmet Hughes, who had quit the White House staff in disillusionment with his role there and now was Rocky's policy adviser (TIME, June 20). By using Rocky-Hughes wording, said Ike to Nixon, "you are saying that you and I haven't done a proper...
After reading Nelson Rockefeller's blast at Vice President Nixon last week. President Eisenhower remarked with a trace of bitterness in his voice: "I see the fine hand of Emmet in this." By Emmet he meant Emmet John Hughes, his own speechwriter during the 1952 and 1956 campaigns...
...President's recognition of a familiar style and tone was accurate. Emmet Hughes, 39, wrote most of Governor Rock efeller's manifesto-and has written many of Rocky's other major speeches and statements since last autumn. And if it is remarkable that a man who wrote Eisenhower campaign speeches should write a Rockefeller statement sharply criticizing the Eisenhower Administration's record, it is even more remarkable that he is a Democrat (a "dissident" or "wandering" Democrat, he specifies), who, under the President's auspices, delivered a major address to the 1956 Republican Convention...
Three-Hatted Tasks. Handsome Emmet Hughes, son of a New Jersey judge, always had a way with words. Raised a Roman Catholic, he published his first book, The Church and the Liberal Society, a few years after his graduation, summa cum laude, from Princeton in 1941. He spent the war years at the U.S. embassy in Spain, doing three-hatted tasks for the State Department, the Office of War Information, and U.S. Army Intelligence. From his Spanish years came his second book, the anti-Franco Report From Spain...
...EMMET RUSSELL...