Word: mately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week President Eisenhower dispelled the storm with as flat a statement as a presidential candidate is ever likely to make about his prospective running mate. "Anyone," said the President at his news conference, "who attempts to drive a wedge between Dick Nixon and me is-has just about as much chance as if he tried to drive it between my brother and me ... I will say it in exactly the terms I mean: I am very happy that Dick Nixon is my friend. I would be happy to be on any political ticket in which I was a candidate...
Even the Democrats are pushing Nixon toward renomination. Many at present are gleefully blasting him as a slanderer, but secretly hope that he will be Ike's running-mate. "Tricky Dicky," they say, is the Republican Party's Achilles Heel, and not many independents are going to vote for a heel, no matter who the President may be. While the Republicans, therefore, want Nixon because they think he can win, the Democrats want Nixon because they think he might cause a Republican defeat...
...document proving that the Communist Party had secretly decided to operate through the Democratic Party. All of this does not quite amount to calling the Democrats traitors, but it comes so close to McCarthyism that it is surprising and dishearting to find Eisenhower supporting Nixon as his running-mate...
Another reporter asked if the President would be content, Nixon willing, to keep Nixon as his running mate. The President replied: "Well, I am not going to be pushed into corners here and say-and right now, at this moment-say what I would do in a hypothetical question involving about five ifs. And I don't think you should expect me to. I do say this: I have no criticism of Vice President Nixon to make, either as a man, associate, or as my running mate on the ticket...
...moment President Eisenhower said he would run, another question became the No. 1 political puzzle in the U.S.: Will Vice President Nixon be his running mate? It was the very first question asked at the President's news conference. "As a matter of fact," Eisenhower answered, "I wouldn't mention the vice-presidency, in spite of my tremendous admiration for Mr. Nixon, for this reason: I believe it is traditional that the Vice President is not nominated until after . . . a presidential candidate is nominated. So I think that we will have to wait to see who the Republican...