Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the second floor of the White House, later got dressed in slacks and sweater, settled down to work at his easel on a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Princess Anne. He sought and got his doctor's permission to receive a few official visitors-Nixon, Adams, Hagerty and the King of Morocco. He put in a half-hour's formal work on state papers, signed his name a dozen times, his initials once, attended to items that ranged from the month's NATO Council meeting through next year's federal budget...
...public got its first direct word from a high U.S. official who had seen the President. "As a layman," said Vice President Nixon, "I would say he is in excellent spirits ... It was not a case of any inability to formulate ideas. In fact the ideas were ahead of his speech. The only problem that the President was having was a hesitancy in finding a very few words ... I noticed no slurring . . . Quite obviously, he is like a caged lion. He wants to get out there and go to work." By that time Jim Hagerty was back...
...NIXON SHOULD TAKE OVER...
THERE are a dozen Americans better fitted by training, temperament and character than Vice President Nixon to succeed the President. But it is better to have a physically fit, vigorous Nixon, skilled in politics, assuming full responsibility, than an ailing Eisenhower who is forced to delegate authority...
...editors of the Review sent out advance copies of Livingston's article on December 2 to President Eisenhower, vice-President Nixon, "missile czar" James R. Killian Jr., and other important Washington officials. It will appear in the January-February 1957 issue of the magazine...