Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should resign. Not that we like Vice President Nixon more as a man or as an official. But Nixon is healthy...
...pray that Nixon can rise to the occasion; that he has learned the perils-and emptiness-of fanatic partisanship. But no real choice remains. The deterioration of America's world position during these recent months of presidential absenteeism is a warning of worse storms ahead if the Presidency remains a sham office. It is our hope that President Eisenhower will see these truths. The issue is whether the U.S. is to have Richard Nixon as President or no President. We choose Nixon...
THREE or four years ago. the arrival of Richard Nixon in the White House would have seemed a dreadful prospect. He seemed an unprincipled smart aleck. a witch-hunting demagogue, and so ambitious that no price seemed too high for a chance at the presidency...
...there is now a "new" Nixon, the secret of the change lies in that ambition. He has deliberately set out to make himself a responsible party leader. He has taken a strong position on civil rights for Negroes: he has been careful to treat Africans and Asians as if they were treasured voters. He has been pro-Israeli rather than pro-Arab, for more foreign aid rather than less. He has been careful to contrast his "understanding" of world affairs with the brinkmanship of Mr. Dulles, and has seized the chance to set his capacity for firm decision against...
...that the emergency work the President had begun should, in all its phases, go forward. The other is that the President's prestige and moral authority should be transferred temporarily, by his own deliberate decision, to a designated deputy. The logical man for the job is Vice President Nixon...