Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon, Bill Knowland and Joe Martin. In the advance billing the program seemed to promise more hoopla than hope, but as it got rolling it proved a fine blend of practicality and idealism...
Quietly, almost casually, in his press conference last week, the President gave his own precedent-breaking answer: he has made his own arrangements for Vice President Richard Nixon to take over in the event of his disability...
Between himself and the Vice President, said Dwight Eisenhower, there is "a rather unique state of mutual confidence and even liking and respect . . . There is such a clear understanding between Mr. Nixon and myself, an understanding to which others around me are completely privy, that it is inconceivable, that is, between him and me, that any misunderstanding could occur...
Troublesome Point. In fact, although he declined to answer the question directly at his news conference, the President had written a letter of instructions to Nixon. The details of the arrangement remained secret at week's end, but its gen eral line could be traced by past and present Administration attitudes...
Eisenhower's willingness to make a non-legal "understanding" smacks of palace politics. The Presidency is not a personal possession to be so lightly willed to Mr. Nixon. While the office would, in any event, be his if Eisenhower should be unable to execute his constitutional duties, it should be his only after certain legal procedures had been followed...