Word: nixon
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...Nixon for Military Strength...
...FRANCISCO, Oct. 15--Vice President Nixon said tonight America's reaction to the Russian satellite should be to resolve that military strength takes priority over tax cuts...
...shall be a candidate for governor of California in 1958." He pledged himself to serve out his "term or terms," but when asked if he might still be a presidential candidate in 1960, he replied: "No one has a crystal ball for 1960-or 1964." Vice President Richard Nixon's supporters immediately prepared to throw support to Knowland in his fight for the G.O.P. nomination against Governor Goodwin J. Knight, and the influential, conservative Los Angeles Times, already committed to Nixon for President in 1960, hinted that it liked Bill Knowland for governor...
Said one knowing New York Harriman Democrat gloomily: "Until Little Rock we figured we were going to make great gains in '58. The way things look, we may be down the drain for the next 15 years, and Nixon is the great civil rights champion. If Ike and the Southern governors compromise, the Democratic Party is compromised but not lost. If they don't, we're not just split-we're amputated...
With Bill Proxmire serving as their weather vane for the '58 congressional elections, the Democrats probably weren't the least bit affected by your claims that Dick Nixon scored a K.O. in the recent civil rights fiasco. Nixon will need more than TIME and Bill Rogers...