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...even he had not expected. The talk itself was a resounding defense of the Eisenhower years and a challenge to the Democratic affront, as he saw it, that the U.S. is "second best." He was interrupted by vigorous applause no less than 72 times. Still glowing over his reception, Ike turned in another rare performance with an extemporaneous talk next morning at a breakfast for 600 Republicans. "In the operation of any great human organization," he said, "constructive plans and programs must be developed in the great middle road . . . Most people instinctively grow to like the paved highway, and they...
...Yoked. Ike's presence in Chicago, his ebullience and confidence, was just the right ticket for Dick Nixon. The President's moderating breakfast speech, his behind-the-door and over-the-phone talks with leaders, strengthened faint hearts, calmed hot tempers. The result was that Nixon could pick his own way past the Administration's record to follow the new lines he had laid out with Rockefeller...
...Discussing his great distaste for socialism, Ike made a remark that soon had the wires in Scandinavian countries blazing with fury. He spoke of "the experiment of almost complete paternalism in a very friendly European country [with] a tremendous record for socialistic operation . . . The record shows that their rate of suicide has gone up almost unbelievably . . . they now have more than twice our rate. Drunkenness has gone up. Lack of ambition is discernible on all sides." The country, though Ike did not mention it, was Sweden. Actually, France has the highest rate of alcoholism in the world...
...foreign affairs, they stressed the urgency of peace and disarmament, blamed the Eisenhower Administration for the U-2 imbroglio, implied that Ike was all too responsible for the summit failure...
...Jerry Voorhis. Nixon's headline-making investigations of the Communist conspiracy in Government and his unmasking of Alger Hiss catapulted him to national fame and a Senate seat in 1950. Two years later, as one of the earliest and most enthusiastic ad mirers of Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon became Ike's running mate. In six crammed years, Dick Nixon rose from complete obscurity to become, at 40, the youngest Vice President since John Breckinridge (of the Buchanan Administration) and Ike's able right-hand...