Word: gahagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group had banded together before Nixon's senatorial campaign. They were all ardent admirers of Nixon, the young Quaker Congressman, and wanted him to run for the Senate. They raised some $25,000 for his campaign against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas. "After he was elected," explained a fund member, "we wanted him to continue what we all looked on as a kind of California crusade for good government. Dick didn't have a dime of his own. So this fund was set up to cover his extraordinary expenses outside his office. Dick never got a nickel...
...tactics used by Nixie the kind and the good against Helen Gahagan Douglas . . . ("He audibly and publicly worried about her health . . .") recall a similar Republican ploy of 1932 when the New York Sun piously trusted that the crippled Franklin D. Roosevelt could be kept out of the presidency "for his own good...
...Senate. Largely as a result of Nixon's work on the Hiss case, a group of young California Republicans urged him to run for the Senate in 1950. Campaigning vigorously against the Democrats' Actress-Politician Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon toured the state in a station wagon, while Mrs. Douglas used a helicopter. Nixon developed a memorable ploy against her, obviously a major addition to Lifemanship.* He audibly and publicly worried about her health and, as a friend describes it, "He'd get a real sad look on his face whenever he bumped into...
...against New Deal Congressman Jerry Voorhis. A friend submitted Nixon's name. There were three other applicants. Nixon got the job, beat Voorhis by 15,592 votes. Re-elected to Congress, 1948; elected to Senate, 1950, in bitter campaign against his fellow member of Congress, New Dealing Helen Gahagan Douglas...
...down in New Hampshire, Harry Truman abruptly pulled out of the California race, where he would have faced Coonskin Estes again. The orphaned Truman delegation began looking for another candidate. Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson seemed a good possibility, but he wouldn't step in. Former Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas offered to run as a favorite daughter, but Luckey's conservative element wouldn't accept her-too leftwing. The motley 76 finally agreed that they couldn't agree on any candidate. Sadly, they wandered off in different directions, looking for candidates. A "Democrats-for-Eisenhower" delegation...