Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MILWAUKEE JOURNAL: EISENHOWER, elected as the great leader, has failed to lead...
...weeks before the elections TIME correspondents talked to dozens of Republican leaders in states where Nixon had campaigned. Almost to a man they were grateful for his efforts, well aware that Nixon need not have lifted a finger in the 1958 campaign had he wanted to duck a part in almost certain defeat. Last week those same leaders were still grateful. But hardly a Republican leader anywhere could keep Rockefeller's name out of the Nixon conversation. Said Illinois Republican Claude Kent, himself a staunch Nixonite: "We think we have a strong new contender in this other fellow [Rockefeller...
That well-oiled political weathervane, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, eased around gracefully last week to point north northwest toward the Democratic Party's election victories. The headlines saw more liberalism in the sharp rise of Democratic working majorities in both the Senate (up from 2 to 28) and in the House (up from 235 to 281). So Democrat Johnson, 48 hours after the count, stepped forth with a program for liberal expansion of federal spending and power by the 86th Congress. " Lyndon doesn't lean with the wind," cracked an admiring Senate colleague. "He leans ahead...
...other side of the aisle, Republican ranks, though depleted, may find in defeat a new cohesion that will let them exploit Democratic splits. Ailing Joe Martin of Massachusetts will probably hand more of the House minority leader's power over to quick-moving Ikeman Charlie Halleck of Indiana; the Senate's probable new Republican leader, Old Guardist-turned-Ikeman Everett Dirksen of Illinois, will doubtless be a much smoother operator than bumbling ex-Minority Leader Bill Knowland...
...scope of his victory had made him a threat to Nixon whether he liked it or not. An Associated Press poll of Republican state chairmen last weekend showed 20 pointing to Nixon as a clear front runner, two (from New York and Massachusetts) claiming Rocky was already the leader-and ten who said it was a tossup between Nixon and Rockefeller...