Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary, even Nixon got into the California politicking. Earlier in the week Bill Knowland had hailed Dick Nixon as the nation's "only major [Presidential] candidate on the Republican ticket." Nixon dutifully returned the compliment, urged his neighbors to vote for Knowland, "a man who refuses to knuckle down to any pressure group, regardless of the political consequence...
...loose-knit fact for nearly two years, was identified and tabbed about three months ago as the Army desperately sought a role in the strategic-deterrent concept. Already 2,000 STRAC men have been geared to a constant two-hour alert at U.S. bases; the hurry-up ''Nixon airlift" of two companies of the zoist Airborne to Puerto Rico last fortnight showed what STRAC's advance guard could do. But the snag about STRAC as a whole is that it is dependent upon the Air Force's inadequate force of troop-carrier aircraft to be able...
Before a standing-room-only audience of newsmen in Washington's National Press Club, Vice President Richard Nixon spoke for far-reaching revision.* Said Nixon: "What we must do is to show that when private enterprise and the United States come into Latin America, we do so not for the purpose of simply keeping in power the elite." He deprecated U.S. diplomats who concentrated on "white-tie dinners," adding that "the universities and the labor movement [are] the wave of the future." Do we leave the field to the Communists? If we do, said Nixon, "we are going...
Many More Voices. Before the reappraisal ended, more voices were sure to be heard. Nixon planned a confidential report to the President and a public one to the nation. Dr. Milton Eisenhower said he still planned to make his study tour of Central America, tentatively set for June 15. A Senate subcommittee would soon start taking a long look into Latin American relations...
...Latino press, Nixon's stand for revision was enough to transform him into a hemisphere hero. Said Caracas' El National: "Nixon [did] not lose sight of the vast problems of Latin America, which have nothing to do with Communism, and Nixon has moved a large section of North American opinion." Said the Mexico City weekly Siempre: "We stand with Mr. Nixon...