Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VICE PRESIDENT NIXON'S FUTURE: "We are warm friends. I admire him and I respect him. I have said this dozens of times; but, more than that, I have got a duty, as I see it, to keep him as well-informed on the operations of this Government, all of the major decisions, as I possibly can . . . Now, when it comes to the successor, as far as I am concerned the candidate will be named by the Republican Party, and I submit that I think there are a lot of darn good men that could be used...
During his recent stay in Peru, Vice President Nixon placed a United States flag at the foot of a statue of Jose de San Martin. A short time later, leftist students ripped the flag to shreds as the police watched. That same afternoon, Mr. Nixon ignored the advice of his aides and Peruvian diplomats and went on the now celebrated visit to the University of San Marcos--"I want to emphasize it was not a personal affront to me. For example, one of the demonstrators spat in my face. He was spitting on the good name of Peru...." This interpretation...
...affront was not subjectively aimed at Mr. Nixon (although objectively speaking he got the worst of it) but at the government and people of the United States. Unfortunately, the hatred felt by many students in Peru and the hostility felt by most South Americans toward this nation is blamed on the South Americans, not the North Americans. Even Mr. Nixon, who should realize by now that this nation is not altogether beloved below the equator, seemed to place the blame for the San Marcos incident on the Peruvians: "This day will live in infamy in the history of San Marcos...
...Nixon seems to have forgotten that when he retreated from the University of San Marcos he went to the Catholic University and was there accorded a singularly frigid reception. Mr. Nixon, the State Department, and perhaps this nation as a whole seem to forget that behind the violent minority is a large and hostile majority. As the pro-American newspaper La Trinuna noted, opposition to the United States stems from the frustration and bitterness that United States attitudes have created among genuinely democratic groups friendly to the United States people...
...been a good union man." After a last concert at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium in July 1953, Levant packed off to a Pasadena sanitarium. In 1956 he managed to last 18 weeks on a Los Angeles KNXT show, Words About Music, then got a reprimand for making anti-Nixon quips and quit in disgust. Last February, after more than a year in four sanitariums, he got a call from KCOP (co-owned by Bing Crosby), was offered a temporary job filling in for ailing Jokester Tom Duggan. Ten days later Levant had a show...