Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general-and generally relieved-impression of political leaders, businessmen and other prominent Europeans who sat down with the U.S. President during his eight-day tour. While Nixon was occasionally greeted by protesting demonstrators, there were many gratifying moments of spontaneity and warmth. Outside Claridge's hotel in London, when Nixon ventured a U.S.-campaign-style foray of handshaking, Mrs. Violet Reeve exclaimed: "Eee! You've got luvverly warm hands!" "That," replied Nixon, "is because I've got a lovely warm car." At a Berlin electrical factory, his audience took up a cry that turned around...
Through Brussels, London, Bonn, Berlin, Rome and Paris, several themes recurred in Nixon's private dialogues at the top. There was his emphasis on the U.S. commitment to the defense of Europe through the NATO alliance, his pledge to consult the Europeans faithfully on questions of common concern, and his insistence that the West must reach a new understanding with the Soviet Union in many areas beyond the immediate topic of arms control. Despite these weighty issues of state, Nixon managed at each stop to depart from his minutely organized routine to plunge into crowds and press the flesh...
From Brussels, Nixon went on to London, where he drove with Prime Minister Harold Wilson past small cheering crowds in roadside villages to Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, for dinner before returning to his suite at Claridge's. Though Nixon and Wilson had met before, this was their first get-together as President and Prime Minister, and the two got on very well. They are similar in many ways: both are rather homely in looks and style, solid and well-disciplined men, who attain and exercise power by organization and tenacity rather than brilliance or charisma. "The personal chemistry is working...
When Richard Nixon lost the California governorship race in 1962, an acerbic English journalist wrote a political obituary. "Nixon's record suggests a man of no principle whatever," chided the pseudonymous columnist "Flavus" in London's New Statesman. Flavus, alias John Freeman, then editor of the socialist weekly, added for good measure in 1964 that Nixon and some other leading Republican hopefuls were "discredited and outmoded purveyors of the irrational...
Bedrock of Statesmanship. Despite such unpromising beginnings, the auguries are surprisingly auspicious. Nixon could have asked Whitehall to send someone else, but did not. When President and envoy met in London last week, Nixon was notably gracious...