Word: harold
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After Ike's intestinal operation, Harold Stassen had some second mental rum blings, ordered his private popularity poll of vice-presidential candidates. Armed with the poll's statistics, Stassen told President Eisenhower of his decision to support Herter. In a 15-minute confer ence Stassen got neither a yes nor a no from Ike, in keeping with Eisenhower's view that the Vice President should be nominated at the convention, not in the White House. Both before and after his conversation with Ike, Stassen talked by telephone to Herter. Stassen was neither encouraged nor rebuffed; high-minded...
Strange pangs flashed along the brow of Harold Stassen, onetime childe wonder of Republican politics. Long disappointed in his presidential passion, his daily feuds with such as Joe McCarthy grown pale and wan, Stassen, at 49, felt the need to fare forth in quest of new political ad ventures. Last week he fared forth. He urged that the G.O.P. dump Vice President Richard Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter...
With President Eisenhower away in Panama, Harold Stassen called a news conference and, in gentle tones, read a prepared statement. He had, said Harold, received the results of private polls that showed Nixon running last to Herter's first among Republican vice-presidential possibilities (one of the others listed in the polling was Harold Stassen). The polls indicated that Nixon's name on the ticket would cost Ike about 6% of the vote this fall, said Stassen. He stoutly maintained that he was acting only as a private citizen, not in his capacity as the President...
Undying Loyalty. Harold Stassen had been a long time deciding what was "for the good of America and for the cause of peace." Shortly after President Eisenhower's heart attack last year-perhaps too shortly, considering the niceties-he saw to it that the word got to the Vice President that Harold Stassen would be a 100% Nixon-for-President man in 1956, got no answer at all. Again, after Ike announced that he would be available for renomination, Stassen sent Nixon his as surances of undying loyalty...
...hurling darts at another member of the Eisenhower team. At the airport he went out of his way to wring Nixon's hand and engage him in private conversation. Moving down the line, he came to Stassen, shook hands routinely, uttered a brief "hello." Bubbled Harold, "Congratulations, Mr. President, you did a wonderful job . . ." His lips were still wagging when the President moved...