Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweeping across African skies in his DC-6B, Richard Nixon got the word that protocol would demand top hat. cutaway and striped trousers at the next stop of his African good-will tour in Liberia. Thus, when the plane landed (with one ailing engine), the Vice President of the U.S., already sweltering in his formal attire, and his summer-clad wife debarked into sizzling sunshine, shook hands all around. After the greetings they stepped quickly to an air-conditioned Cadillac for the 50-mile trip to the capital of Monrovia. The new comfort did not last...
Liberia had laid out the red carpet. Nixon was appointed honorary paramount chief of all the Liberian tribes (permitting him, if he should ever decide to retire to Liberia, to marry as many wives as he can support). Handshaking and waving his way through crowded village and city streets, he got a handsome welcome from President William V. S. Tubman, who reflected his country's devotion to the U.S. with dinners, gifts (carved ivory box, solid gold watch chain) and words ("Our strongest, closest and most reliable friend"). On behalf of a friendly...
...Nixon presented Liberia with two Coast Guard utility boats and a six months' instruction course for Liberian navymen-bringing that nation's naval strength up to three vessels: two Coast Guard utility boats, one presidential yacht...
...fitting, Tubman told Nixon, that the Vice President should visit Africa's oldest independent country (1847) after calling on Africa's newest...
Help Offered. Only a few days before, the Vice President (in lightweight business suit) and his party attended the official birth of the new nation of Ghana (see FOREIGN NEWS). Nixon, only one of hundreds of officials representing 69 foreign nations and territories at the ceremonies in Accra, had a pleasant, champagne-sipping talk with Ghana's U.S.-schooled Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, told Nkrumah that the U.S. is prepared to offer help in the new country's development. He chatted with one of Britain's top emissaries, Lord Privy Seal Richard A. ("Rab") Butler, talked about...