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...headline-making investigations of the Communist conspiracy in Government and his unmasking of Alger Hiss catapulted him to national fame and a Senate seat in 1950. Two years later, as one of the earliest and most enthusiastic ad mirers of Dwight Eisenhower, Nixon became Ike's running mate. In six crammed years, Dick Nixon rose from complete obscurity to become, at 40, the youngest Vice President since John Breckinridge (of the Buchanan Administration) and Ike's able right-hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Men Who | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...Chicago. With his staff protecting him from intrusions, he spent most of the time at his fieldstone house in the Wesley Heights section of Washington ? and he found plenty to think about, more than he had expected. Jack Kennedy's choice of Lyndon Johnson as his Democratic running mate jolted Nixon's campaign strategy by upsetting his hopes of hauling in a lot of Southern electoral votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Bold Stroke | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...Manhattan apartment and the White House, was probably not spun out of a few creative minds on the eve of its approval by the convention. It is unlikely, for instance, that Nixon asked for a stronger civil rights plank simply because Senator Kennedy selected Senator Johnson as his running mate. Shrewd as Kennedy's choice seems to be, it is hardly enough to panic Nixon so much that he will lose all hope of winning a single Southern state in November. Nixon may have been at a loss for words last spring--but he was inarticulate in an attempt...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Pachyderm Platform | 7/28/1960 | See Source »

Moreover, Kennedy's running mate, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, has frequently told friends of his private respect and admiration for Nixon. But principally the Nixon attack misfired because Jack Kennedy's campaign had seemed to show promise of something vastly better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To the Same Old Stand | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...agents at White House briefings on foreign affairs (but Ike himself said he would give classified information to nobody but Kennedy or Johnson). Other folks were reminded that, come to think of it, F.D.R., the Northern liberal, had once chosen Texas Conservative John Nance Garner as his running mate ("Garner regretted it the rest of his life," said a Texan ruefully. "I hope Johnson doesn't") and recalled how Adlai Stevenson's No. 2 man in 1952 was Alabama's Senator John Sparkman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Fair Lyndon | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

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