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...reply to a telegram from President Eisenhower, who had invited Kennedy and his aides to meet with him and White House officers to discuss transition problems. Kennedy answered with a telegram: I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU AND AGAIN EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR YOUR COOPERATION. (Earlier, Kennedy had wired Ike: THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS HOPEFUL THAT YOUR LONG EXPERIENCE IN THE SERVICE OF YOUR COUNTRY CAN BE DRAWN UPON FURTHER IN THE YEARS TO COME.) Probable meeting date: right after Thanksgiving...
...reckoned with as a candidate in 1964. In 1960 Nixon came within a handful of votes of carrying California, Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota, and, with them, the election. He went down to defeat as the second best Republican vote getter in history, winning 33.3 million votes v. Ike's 35.6 million in 1956. He ran well ahead of the other G.O.P. candidates, pulled several lesser Republicans into Congress on his shirttails. Said New York Congressman William Miller, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee: "Any man who, at 47, comes within 300,000 votes of winning the presidency...
...also the unpopularity of Mike Di Salle's state tax increases and the overconfidence that led the Democrats to coast during the campaign's final week while Republican State Chairman Ray Bliss bombarded voters with radio, TV and newspaper ads-and most important of all. brought in Ike. Last week, surveying the wreckage, Di Salle gloomily declared: "They're going to have to find a scapegoat, and it might as well be me." His foes among the Democratic county chairmen couldn't agree more...
Machines or Ike? Nixon napped in his suite for most of the afternoon, then settled down to await the results, wearing a lounging robe over his shirt and trousers. He got his news mostly from staff reports, left the TV set turned off. To Old Pro Nixon, the trend was soon all too obvious; long before most of his supporters, he realized that he was in trouble. While Nixon lieutenants kept up the spirits of 3,000 workers gathered in the ballroom below for a "Nixon-Lodge victory night," Nixon nibbled on sandwiches, sipped champagne. His personal agony was shared...
...crowd downstairs cheered more wildly at every Nixon rally, shook the hall with shouts of "We want Nixon." Campaign Chairman Leonard Hall assured all that "this one would be a squeaker." "Who are you going to believe," asked one worker, "those damned lying machines or good old Ike?" Disk Jockey Johnny Grant went to the microphone and bellowed: "Look, this is not a wake. We are not losing, and we are not going to lose." Hope died hard-but by 10 p.m. Pacific time, the somber recognition that victory was getting beyond reach hit the Nixon crowd. Almost...