Word: nixon
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Richard M. Nixon, our next President...
President Richard Nixon that foreshadowed new U.S. economic aid (see below), British and French bitterness eased. Over all, Budapest cast its dark shadow. "Communist prestige," said a French Foreign Office spokesman, " has dropped to an alltime low in Europe...
...Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Vice President Richard Nixon rose one night last week to deliver a major U.S. foreign policy statement. Before him sat 1,500 members of the Automobile Manufacturers Association in town for the National Automobile Show (see BUSINESS). The Vice President had a twofold mission: 1) to answer the weeks of criticism of U.S. policy in the Middle East, and 2) to lay new groundwork for the strengthening of the Atlantic alliance and the whole free world...
With a text that had been discussed with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Nixon began by reviewing the 40-day world crisis. There had been "some observers of world affairs . . . the critics of despair and the prophets of doom," who had proclaimed a massive Soviet victory in the Middle East. These critics, Nixon believed, were taking "a shortsighted and, if I might respectfully say so, immature view of the issues." When Israel, Britain and France attacked Egypt, the world wondered whether the U.S. would stand by its principles, or because its friends were involved, would "conveniently look the other...
...Johnny-come-lately who concentrated on practicing and teaching tax law around Chicago after graduation from Northwestern University. Moving to Los Angeles in 1943, he dipped a toe in the political pool by campaign fund raising. In 1950 he helped stage Helen Gahagan Douglas' unsuccessful battle against Dick Nixon for the U.S. Senate. Ziffren was named national committeeman in 1953, immediately set about reorganizing California's clanking party machinery, is given credit for the Democrats' 1956 gains in Congress (two) and the state legislature (two senate seats, five assembly seats) this year...