Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just two hours before his second inauguration, Vice President Richard Nixon met with a handful of newsmen in the sitting room of his white brick home in Washington's Spring Valley. He began with relaxed small talk: he had been able to sleep until 8 a.m. because his daughters did not have to go to school (Inauguration Day is a holiday in Washington); the girls, Patricia, 10, and Julie, 8, were now old enough to look in briefly on that night's inaugural ball; the Nixons' baby sitter had complained that she had never seen a President...
...first term, continued Nixon, gave him "a chance for a more liberal education in what goes on in the world than perhaps any other man in recent American history. I think I can fairly say that this increases my ability to make a worth-while contribution in the high councils of state." Therefore, said Vice President Nixon, for the next four years he "will be doing something more substantial than acting as a figurehead in presiding over the Senate...
...reporters left the Nixon home impressed with what he had said-and with what he had not said. Speculating on the whole performance, New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock noted: "At this distant point from 1960, across a time span in which coming events are necessarily obscure, the current fact seems to be not only that Nixon is foremost among Republican presidential aspirants but that he is unlikely to make the errors which would displace him from that position." Five days after the inauguration, Dick Nixon announced that the future held something else in store for him: a new home...
...Youth Vote: In 1952 voters between the ages of 21 and 29 gave Eisenhower-Nixon 49% of their vote, upped it in 1956 to 57%. Said Gallup: this shift is significant because 8,600,000 adults have reached voting age since 1952, and more are coming fast...
...Negro Vote: In 1952 the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket polled 21% of the Negro vote, in 1956 upped the figure to an astonishing 39%. But lest the G.O.P. start kidding itself about an irreversible trend, Gallup reported that Negroes generally used the word "Eisenhower" when they liked what the party did, used the word "Republicans" when they damned...