Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President. That doesn't mean I would support him." Indiana's lone-wolf Republican Senator Homer Capehart, a Rocky fan in a Nixon state, came by to predict big things in Hoosierland...
...harsh, yet frankly skeptical, was the judgment of Cook County Republican Chairman Francis X. Connell: "I don't think he's changed anybody's mind on the question of the nominee for President." While he found Governor Rockefeller "completely disarming," said Connell, the organization is behind Nixon...
Gazing into his crystal ball in Raleigh, N.C., New York's ex-Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman, 67, no longer a presidential candidate, predicted with no ifs or buts that Vice President Richard Nixon will be next year's Republican nominee: "He's going to get nominated, because he expresses the Republican philosophy." In definition of that philosophy, Multimillionaire Harriman cordially damned the G.O.P. Administration's "ruling class of big businessmen," added that its political ascendancy has hurt the U.S. at home and abroad, because "you've got to be a good neighbor at home...
...propelled era of personal diplomacy, the world's statesmen are necessarily accompanied by swarms of newsmen, to the extent that in their very number they have come to pose a perplexing problem. Where only three correspondents, one from each U.S. wire service, went along with Vice President Richard Nixon on his 1953 trip to Australia and Asia, last spring more than 80 followed him to Russia, eliciting from the Vice President the complaint that he could not easily hold background briefings, a Nixon practice, for so large a number. And when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the U.S. this...
...Moscow last spring, the Nixon-tour reporters learned to their dismay that Russia's limited communications system could not handle the emergency load. Cable copy took ten hours or more to reach the U.S. To avoid such delays, the wire services and the big morning papers tied up overseas telephone lines, spent frustrating hours dictating their stories over circuits that were not only in painfully short supply but regularly went dead in the middle of transmissions...