Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME [May 5] did one of its finest jobs in clarity in exposing a cross section of Vice President Nixon's courageous, non-political talk before the A.N.P.A. Every day, Nixon grows in stature as a great American statesman with the courage of his convictions while so many of his opponents spar in the political ring for punches designed to slam through the front pages. He must be doing all right for himself, because the shadows in the dark, slimy political alleys continue to try to smear him with the wornout, age-old charges never proved, but kept alive...
...Nixon is not going to be our next President. A Democrat will be in the White House come...
PERHAPS on some desk in the Kremlin a date on a calendar was marked with a note, "Nixon in Peru," and a few days later another: "Nixon in Venezuela." But the explosive receptions that greeted Dick Nixon in those countries on those dates only moved the U.S. to a search for answers. "I was an American," wrote a TIME correspondent in Caracas, "and here before my eyes the Vice President of the U.S. was on the verge of very possibly being beaten to death. How in God's name could something like this be happening?" For some answers...
...nearly 15,000 -ordinary citizens, students with placards of welcome, brass bands, civil servants, diplomats, Congressmen, Cabinet members and the President of the U.S. -crushing around the DC-6B just landed at Washington's National Airport. In the plane's doorway appeared Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon, back from their tumultuous 18-day tour of Latin America. This was their homecoming, rare in its deep-felt warmth...
Anti-Americanism is not solely Communist inspired, McGann noted. He felt that the sentiment which gave rise to the anti-Nixon riots is a carry-over from the days of American imperialism. Although Communists participated in and directed the demonstrations to some extent, only 150,000 of the 175 million inhabitants of Latin America are actually Communist...