Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning Nixon was scheduled to go to the White House for a conference looking toward this week's meeting with congressional leaders. By routine, he would have dropped by his office first for a quick check of the work on his desk. This time, leaving his new home on Forest Lane at 8 a.m., he ordered his limousine straight to the White House, forgot even to notify his daytime Secret Service agent, who showed up at the Senate Office Building and was embarrassed to learn that Nixon was across town...
...clock, Nixon was meeting with Sherman Adams, Attorney General William Rogers, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and White House Aide Jerry Persons around what was to become the week's center of government: an oaken table in the corner of Sherman Adams' office. Adams briefed the group on the facts of the President's illness. Later, the President's doctors entered the room. Asked Nixon: "How is he?" The answer: improved...
...between the White House mood last week and the reaction to President Eisenhower's 1955 heart attack. That first time everyone was excited and confused, wondering how-and even if-the Government could carry on in the President's absence. Few such questions arose last week. Says Nixon: "We had been over it all before." Bill Rogers was asked if any legal document or procedure was necessary to provide for interim administration. His answer: no. That said, the five-man group got down to business. How the U.S. Government operated last week is best explained in the work...
...Finally, Nixon broke away, returned to his office and the work he had left there the previous morning. "I want to get out of here by 6:15," he said. "The girls want me home." It was nearly 7 :30, and Nixon's family was waiting dinner when he got home. He was soon in his study for three hours of work that his secretary. Rose Mary Woods, had brought to his house. During that period came a relaxing interlude: his daughters, Patricia, 11, and Julie, 9, came into the study to show off the Christmas-season skirts...
Five O'Clock Shadow. Nixon went straight to the White House next morning, sat in on a round of conferences, talked to President Eisenhower for about 15 minutes, slipped out a back door of the White House just in time to get to a luncheon for Mohammed V at Anderson House. Then he rushed to the Capitol, tried to get in a few minutes of undisturbed work in his unnumbered Capitol office. He realized that he had better get shaved for another dinner with Mohammed V (Nixon's heavy blue beard, the delight of cartoonists, was showing five...