Word: internationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his first term in Congress, Nixon showed himself to be, in the positions he took, a sort of pre-Eisenhower Eisenhower Republican: conservative on the central domestic question of the role of Government in national life, liberal on civil rights, internationalist in foreign relations. As a Congressman, he took several stands that the Eisenhower Administration later adopted and translated into law: civil rights legislation, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, relinquishment of federal claims to control of the tidelands. As a freshman Congressman, Nixon supported Harry Truman's program of aid to Communist...
...every Republican Convention since 1936, Indiana Congressman Charlie Halleck has backslapped his way among the delegates, like the Hoosier horse trader that he is. In 1940 he nominated fellow Indianian Wendell Willkie for the presidency. In 1948 Halleck swung Old Guard Indiana to Internationalist Tom Dewey on the promise, he thought, of the vice-presidential nomination (California's Earl Warren got it). In 1952 Halleck's support of Dwight Eisenhower was a sharp blow to the embittered forces of Ohio's Bob Taft. In 1956 he nominated...
...whole picture.Such a time of national peril, they suggested, could make the Democratic Convention reject Kennedy as too young and too inexperienced to cope with Nikita Khrushchev. A better crisis candidate, the whisper went, might be Johnson, the cool, bipartisan helmsman, or Symington, the military expert, or Stevenson, the internationalist. It all had the sound, though, of whistling in the growing dark...
...mellowed enough to reach such a warm rapport with the Southern conservative leaders of the Senate that he is ranked as one of the best-liked members of that exclusive club. His 8½-hour talkathon with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev in December 1958 gave him an internationalist's aura and propelled him into a commanding position in front of the Democratic liberals...
...After sulkily protesting the pairings, Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer, the terrible-tempered boy (16) wonder of world chess, finally entered the U.S. chess championship in Manhattan, beat out fellow internationalist Grand Master Samuel Reshevsky to win his third successive title...