Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When he finally got to Washington, the weather was so bad that the welcoming ceremonies-honor guard, music and all-had to be held in a hangar at the MATS terminal. Moreover, a few Italians were miffed because President Eisenhower was not at the field (he sent Vice President Nixon to greet Segni), and because the President took off on his California vacation right after having Segni to lunch. The person who seemed to mind least was Antonio Segni himself. Small and frail at 68, Sardinia-born Statesman Segni glided through his visit with a quiet confidence drawn from years...
...Pennsylvania Avenue had better keep the other eye cocked toward California, with its late (June 7), high-stakes (81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 70 to the Republican) presidential primaries and its 32 electoral votes. To no one is California more crucial than to Native Son Richard Nixon; if he cannot count on his home state, he will have a rough path to walk toward the White House. Just four months ago the Mervin Field poll, most widely circulated in the state, showed Nixon not only running well behind Massachusetts' John Kennedy and Illinois' Adlai Stevenson...
...Capp and Walt Kelly will pose as Nixon and Rockefeller in "Republican Charades 1960," the first fall program of the Law School Forum, John S. Samuels 3L, said yesterday. The following program will feature James R. Hoffa, Teamster President, and a faculty panel...
...When Nixon-for-President men get together in New Hampshire to talk over Richard M. Nixon's prospects in the state's early-bird primary election-the nation's first-next March, they are likely to ask one another, a little worriedly, "How strong is this Dartmouth thing?" The "Dartmouth thing" is the glittering fact that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Dick Nixon's only serious rival for the Republican presidential nomination, is an alumnus of Dartmouth College, which is to New Hampshire what Harvard is to Massachusetts, only more...
...before the game, Rockefeller-for-President rooters were waiting with a brass band and a batch of placards reading. WHAT A FELLER. ROCKEFELLER and LET'S ROLL WITH ROCK. Next morning Rock rolled over to Concord, the state capital, to woo the state's top Republicans. pro-Nixon Senator Styles Bridges and leaning-to-Nixon Governor Wesley Powell. Same day the Rockefeller "Committee of 40" let it be known that it would shortly be expanded to a "Committee of 150." Among the recruits: Dartmouth President Dr. John Sloan Dickey...