Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the end of the tour, on the gravel walk leading to Khrushchev's limousine, his hosts had set up a table stocked with California champagne and white and red wines. Nixon chose red wine, Khrushchev white. "A good wine," he said. Then he raised his glass and proposed a toast: "To the elimination of all military bases on foreign lands." Milton Eisenhower, who had not quite heard the translation, almost drank but stopped the goblet at his lips. The smile stayed on Nixon's face, but he did not raise his glass. "I am for peace...
Nixon: One hundred years of life. I will drink to that. We disagree with you, but we want you to be in good health...
...good reasons made Michigan Republican "Fritz" Mueller a natural choice for Commerce Secretary: 1) as Assistant Secretary for three years (1955-58), then Under Secretary, and finally Acting Secretary after Strauss's resignation,'he is better equipped than anyone else to step into the top job as time runs out in the Eisenhower Administration; and 2) he should have little trouble getting Senate confirmation; his nomination as Under Secretary was quietly confirmed while the Strauss fight was going on. Moreover...
...House correspondents-the first for the press that he had ever held at his house. Present were Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Press Secretary James Hagerty, and 13 newsmen-those, as Ike told the news conference, "who have covered me wherever I've gone, day in, day out ... on good trips, bad trips or anything else ... I wanted to show them a courtesy...
...Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts. McCormack (67) is ambitious to succeed Mr. Sam (77) as House Speaker, is wary of rising competition from Missouri's youthful (43) Richard Boiling, who has been Mr. Sam's quarterback on labor-bill strategy. McCormack covertly began to work for Meany. Good Democrats should never split on labor issues, he soothingly told the Rayburn loyalists on the committee, and "Don't follow the Speaker down this road to ruin." As some of the Rayburn Democrats swayed, McCormack threw open support to a skeleton substitute bill drawn up by California...