Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realistic appraisal of the President's health; please help our country by urging healthy and industrious Mr. Nixon to take this high office...
Behind the new action-now program was a growing impatience by such venturesome Cabinet members as Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. Attorney General Bill Rogers and Vice President Nixon with the pacing of antirecession moves. In his letter to Knowland and Martin, the President hit out at Democrats, without calling any actual names, for the "sudden upsurge of pump-priming schemes" put forward by persons lacking "faith in the inherent vitality of our free economy and in the American as an individual." But all in all, the new policy marked a notable shift...
...President's staff patched up a workable but probably extralegal procedure-Cabinet members stood by their telephones; air strike forces put on special alerts-and it was agreed that if the enemy did attack, the retaliation order would be given by a presidential standin, presumably Vice President Richard Nixon...
...President should be unable to make such a declaration (because of severe illness, mental incapacity, or whatever), the Vice President -upon receiving written approval from a majority of the Cabinet-could pronounce the President disabled, and could take over. Any agreement between President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon would necessarily include some such provisions...
...urge cuts if the economy fails to perk up as expected. The promise underlined an essential fact about the recession: while the U.S. Government cannot prevent downturns, it is inescapably committed to combat them, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat. Because of this commitment, Vice President Nixon could say with considerable confidence of his own last week: "The American people can make their plans for 1958 with confidence rather than fear...