Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the demonstration subsided, he cut through formality to wish the Congress a happy new year on behalf of himself and Mrs. Eisenhower. In the gallery, Mamie took a bow. Still smiling and casual, the President turned to the rostrum behind him for timely birthday greetings to Vice President Nixon (45) and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (76). Then, the smiles giving way to solemnity, he turned to the business at hand: his sixth State of the Union message. When he concluded, the nation and the world had heard a speech that was unusual not merely for the vigor...
Control of Time. Before his statement had burst into print Texan Johnson was on his way again. He seemed everywhere at once: describing a new electric vibrator to Vice President Richard Nixon, eating breakfast with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and again with Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, holding seven-hour committee sessions, making television films for a Texas network, striding down a corridor tossing off orders to two pretty secretaries who took notes as they scurried after him, slipping into a dinner jacket for a banquet, speaking to the Women's National Press Club and to 1,200 steelworkers...
Like Kennedy, Herter Jr. is a Harvard man ('41) and a World War II combat veteran (Army, Purple Heart, Croix de guerre) who afterwards took to politics. In 1950 and 1952 he won election to the Massachusetts house, resigned in 1953 to be Vice President Nixon's administrative aide in Washington, later served as general counsel for Nixon's G.O.P. hair shirt, Harold E. Stassen. In 1956 Herter ran successfully for the State Executive Council...
...Quarles, reached with them a "tentative final figure" for defense next year. Next day he convened his first full Cabinet meeting in four weeks, led a general discussion on the State of the Union message, which each Cabinet member had received for review a day earlier. Leaving Vice President Nixon in charge of the meeting, the President went down the hall to witness the swearing-in of his new Civil Rights Commission. In high good humor Ike insisted on presenting Michigan State's Dr. John Hannah and his five commissioners their "diplomas," i.e., commissions neatly tied in blue ribbon...
...Republican side, there is little sign of any solid movement to stand against the Democratic attack. The band of liberal Republican Senators who have rallied around Ike before are themselves nervous about his leadership, and have turned to Vice President Nixon for counsel. "In our own self-interest," said one ex-Ikeman, "we've got to convince the electorate that we are more energetic than Eisenhower." New Jersey's Clifford Case has already called for more aid to education than the Administration is expected to propose, and for better defense than it has produced; New York...