Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dallas for the opening of the Texas state fair, Nixon again related the occasion to international affairs: "Driving out here, I thought of another fair that I saw only a few weeks ago in Russia...
Once Stung. Only once during the week did Candidate Nixon get into the give and take of partisan politics. Then, stung by Democratic Presidential Candidate Stuart Symington's criticism of Administration missile and space policies, Nixon replied: "While he was Secretary of the Air Force [during the Truman Administration], I would like to know how many missiles he ordered. It was very, very few." But by week's end Nixon was back on his carefully noncontroversial path. In Oregon's Columbia River country to dedicate his second dam in a fortnight. Nixon told some 3,500: "There...
...journalists last night disputed vice-president Nixon's political record, one terming him a statesman who travels the middle of the road, and the other labelling him a politician who aways from one side to the other...
...third Ford Hall Forum Program of the season at Jordan Hall in Boston, James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, called Nixon an insincere man "who weaves from the right side of the road to the left and should be arrested for drunken driving." He cited the vicePresident's treatment of the Alger Hiss case and his support for negotiations with the Russians as "an example of his twoheaded politics...
Answering the question of the forum, "Nixon as President: Statesman or Politician," Harold E. Clancy, managing editor of the conservative Boston Traveler, said he saw no inconsistency in Nixon's stands...