Word: nixon
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...week's end Vice President Nixon, with his wife and children, went in the rain to Washington's National Airport to bid the King goodbye. As Saud boarded a Constellation bound for the Azores, where a Spanish plane would transport him to his next stop in Spain, Nixon said he hoped that the bad weather "doesn't leave a bad impression on Your Majesty." Replied Saud of Arabia: The rain was of no consequence; he would remember "the warmth of the heart...
...Grim Reaper." To a correspondent's suggestion that Vice President Nixon's assignments from the White House (as typified by his African trip next month to witness the christening of the Gold Coast colony as the British Commonwealth member of Ghana) were still largely ceremonial, the President replied: "Even if ... Mr. Nixon and I were not good friends, I would still have him in every important conference of government, so that if the grim reaper would find it time to ... remove me from this scene, he is ready to step in without any interruption...
Many Washingtonians thought that Bill Knowland, in pushing on his path of logic, had managed to make a little headway toward a possible political goal: edging out his fellow Californian Dick Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960.* Politicking or not, Knowland had built up a position that was likely to make him more friends than enemies. It would appeal to 1) the conservative Republicans, who instinctively trust and admire Knowland and have mistrusted the U.N. from the start, and 2) the once-trusting U.N. partisans who have lost faith in the U.N. since its vote against Britain, France...
...Knowland has a long way to go, reported the Gallup poll this week. Asked whether they would "personally prefer" Dick Nixon or Bill Knowland as the G.O.P. presidential nominee in 1960, Republican voters replied: Nixon 63%, Knowland 23%, don't know 14%. But even more indicative: of Republican voters polled, only 2% said they did not know Nixon, 28% said they did not know Knowland...
Lofty Pomp. Thus began a long series of official functions with Ike, Dulles, Richard Nixon, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, and official talks with the President and the Secretary of State. Highlight of the week was Ike's high-level, white-tie stag dinner at the White House for some 60 guests, including a dozen or so oilmen and bankers-and not including newsmen. There followed a heavy, split-second schedule for Saud; every moment away from business he spent in side trips, e.g., a wreath for the Unknown Soldier, a tour of the U.S. Naval Academy, a basketball game...