Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come up with anything except platitudes. I'm a lifelong Republican, but for the first time in my 53 years I'm voting Democratic. Straight, too. And that's the way it'll be until it's proved to me that there's leadership instead of press-agentmanship in the G.O.P. And Nixonman-ship is not leadership...
...tore into its final week with drums thumping and speakers sprouting from every stump. Against gloomy predictions of voter apathy, U.S. registration reached an alltime nonpresidential-year high of an estimated 76,145,600 (v. 74,879,146 in 1954). Against Republican complaints about his above-it-all political leadership, President Eisenhower threw himself into the campaign with the toughest partisan speeches of his life. And against national and international trends that had threatened to turn the elections into a Democratic cakewalk to sweeping victory, came developments that, in state after state, had turned the contests into down...
...Party Leadership: President Eisenhower's longstanding reluctance to dramatize the record of the Republican Administration in political terms left the G.O.P. leaderless and disorganized, while the Democrats built up a two-to-one organizational lead in volunteer workers across the U.S. Then Vice President Richard Nixon set off on his no-stop campaign trip, gave state and local G.O.P. leaders the spark they needed. By last week, with Ike jumping into the campaign to assert his own brand of party leadership (see Republicans), Republican spirits were on the rise. At week's end, bone weary, with voice choked...
...with something of the old magic of 1952 and 1956. In Los Angeles and San Francisco he aimed over the heads of California's feuding and fussing G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Bill Knowland and G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Goodwin Knight, hit the point that the G.O.P. national record and national leadership were the best reasons for Californians to vote Republican...
Everywhere, Ike threw into the campaign a new, spirited partisan defense of his recorcl-plus new (for him) partisan onslaughts against the Democrats that all but acknowledged his recognition of the fact that his leadership was a key issue. His keynotes...