Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department then obtained Miss Douglas, who is now a lecturer for the Foreign Policy Association. She was defeated in her race for the Senate in 1950 by Richard M. Nixon...
...manager explained that rules were rules and Gbedemah and secretary paid for their orange juice, left it on the counter and walked out. "If the Vice President of the U.S. can have a meal in my house when he is in Ghana," said Gbedemah, who had entertained Vice President Nixon during his tour of Africa last spring, "then I cannot understand why I must receive this treatment at a roadside restaurant in America...
Hurriedly, the State Department put out an official apology. Wilson Flake, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, forestalled an official protest to Washington from the Ghana government by making a public statement that this was "an exceptional and isolated incident." President Eisenhower invited Gbedemah to breakfast with him and Vice President Nixon at the White House, put on an Eisenhower tour of the historic White House first floor, explained frankly that "little bits like that happen all over the place and you never know when they'll blow up or where...
...satellite launching may serve the cause of freedom, Nixon said, "if only we react strongly and intelligently to its implications...
...Nixon said, "we could make a no greater mistake than to brush off this event as a scientific stunt of more significance to the man in the moon than to men on earth." This was Nixon's first public comment on the satellite...