Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening the presidential poll season for 1960, George Gallup asked Democrats and Republicans who they favored for their own party nominations. Results: among Democrats. Tennessee's never-hear-die Senator Estes Kefauver (with 29%) led Massachusetts' eager Senator John Kennedy (23%); among Republicans, Vice President Richard Nixon easily outdistanced California's Senator William Knowland (48% to 12%). Last week Pollster Gallup began pairing the top Democrats against the top Republicans, got these answers...
...Nixon...
...would create one of the ding-dongest political fights in California's history, all to the detriment of the Republican Party. Beyond that, as they all know as well, the statehouse is a good stump from which Governor Bill Knowland could lay his plans to fight Californian Dick Nixon for the 1960 presidential nomination...
...Dick Nixon...
...aide on his special presidential mission to China. Back on the job for TIME-LIFE. Shepley, as head of the Washington bureau, made the world his beat. If he was not flying the Atlantic with General Alfred M. Gruenther, Shepley might be fishing with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, or on a safari in Africa with the Air Force's General Curtis LeMay (for a LIFE picture story), or developing a far-reaching story on U.S. world policy...