Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly more than an idea. It came to substance during conferences around the octagonal table in the White House Cabinet Room. There Ike sat in his regular chair, back to the French doors leading to the Rose Garden. Across from him, in the chair usually reserved for Vice President Nixon, sat Harold Macmillan, a maroon cardigan sweater buttoned under his grey sack suit, the stump of a dead cigar in his hand. Their relationship, long friendly, grew closer during the week (although Ike called him "Harold," Macmillan stuck to "Mr. President"). So it was at other levels, e.g, as between...
...able to talk about them-at a critical time., when the Russians were boasting a post-Sputnik balance of power in the world-was not so much a triumph for the President's policies as for the policies of other top-level Administration officials, including Vice President Richard Nixon. At Administration conferences Nixon has urged 1) that President Eisenhower move sharply to re-emphasize his national leadership, and 2) that the Administration go farther toward explaining the true state of the nation's security to the people, by relaxing the secrecy curbs on reports of missile progress. From...
...relied greatly on Ike's popularity in traditionally Republican New Jersey. He has told Negro audiences that a vote for Republican candidates is "the only way you can tell the President he did right" in Little Rock. And a long train of Republican national figures, from Vice-President Nixon and three cabinet members down to a group of campaign strategists, has entered the state on Forbes's behalf. If Forbes wins, and most experts feel the race will be very close, it will be due to this national support, for he has not offered the voters anything substantially better than...
...world-minded businessmen, apprehensive over a U.S. drift to protectionism, Nixon's proposals were a heartening reaffirmation of official intent to work for freer trade, a vital contribution to economic betterment of under-developed nations. In conference rooms and hotel corridors, businessmen vigorously debated a host of other issues that ranged from new investment incentives (see New Ideas for Investment) to German Banker Herman Abs's call for a Magna Carta of investors' rights (see The Capitalist Magna Carta...
...Tennessee Valley Authority, now a consultant to foreign governments on their own development programs. Along with such far-reaching solutions as the Magna Carta of investment capital's rights proposed by Germany's Hermann Abs and the world-investment-guarantee plan proposed by Vice President Richard Nixon, the delegates had some ideas of their own on how to speed private investment. Among them...