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...Booby Trap. That afternoon, Childe Harold's anti-Nixon campaign blew up right in his face. He had walked into his own political booby trap. Long before Stassen brought his dump-Nixon move into the open, Nixon and Chairman Len Hall had learned what was up. Nixon himself called Herter to ask that Herter place Nixon in nomination at the Republican convention. Herter did not give an immediate answer. But after Stassen's first public statement. Herter was again asked to nominate Nixon. This time he agreed. In an instant Stassen became a manager without a candidate...
...Harold Stassen is not easily embarrassed, and he is an expert at prolonging a story that keeps his name in print. Throughout the week he piled on new copy, calling on the President to express his attitude in unmistakable terms, accusing Len Hall of trying to ram through Nixon's nomination, arranging for still another vice-presidential poll. This weekend, on Face the Nation. Stassen said he was "foreclosing any consideration" for President or Vice President in order to bring about an "open" 1956 convention. "Forever?" asked a reporter. Said Harold Stassen...
...meeting over, the President drove back to the farm. Hagerty flashed the news to G.O.P. Committee Chairman Len Hall, then huddled with Knowland and the others. Asked Knowland: "Shall I tell the press right away he is going to run again, then take up the legislative matters later?" "No," said Hagerty. "Why not just tell what was decided on the legislative program, and let the reporters bring up the political question...
...Nixon's Air Force Constellation touched down at Washington's MATS Terminal after 27,477 miles, were State's Secretary John Foster Dulles and Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr., some 20 G.O.P. Senators and Representatives marshaled by Senate Minority Leader Bill Knowland. Republican National Chairman Len Hall, and diplomats from the six nations Nixon had visited on his voyage around the world. Travel-weary but smiling, Dick Nixon greeted old friends, but kept his conclusions to himself until he could fly to Gettysburg for a report to the man who had sent him hopping from the Philippines...
Mind if I Make Love to You (Len Dresslar; Mercury). A Cole Porter song, from the forthcoming film High Society, that sounds like one of the old ones, with its well-mannered melody, its discreet rumba rhythm, its inner rhymes. Only the sentiment grates...