Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very vehemence of the attack contributed to the success of Nixon's cam paign : the hard-working young man who represented Ike to the bulk of the American people seemed not at all like a devil with horns. And neither did he turn out to be the liability that Harold Stassen had predicted. Stassen had said that polls showed that Nixon would lose the G.O.P. 6% of the votes-and thus the election, since Ike got 55% of the vote in 1952. But in 1956. with Nixon at his side...
...before the election in Minneapolis and again that night in Boston. Harshly, he charged that Dwight Eisenhower neither knows nor cares what goes on about him in Washington, that he "holds forth in the pulpit while his choirboys sneak around back alleys with sandbags." He described Richard Nixon's campaign role as that of a man who "has put away his switch blade and now assumes the aspect of an Eagle Scout...
...Boston audience gasped as he said: "Every piece of scientific evidence, every lesson of history and experience, indicates that a Republican victory tomorrow would mean that Richard Nixon would probably be President of this country within the next four years," i.e., Ike would not finish his term in office. Unfortunately for Adlai Stevenson and his place in U.S. political history, the charges he flung in the closing hours of the 1956 campaign may be remembered just as long as his stubbornly defended, politically disastrous arguments on ending the draft and calling off H-bomb tests by agreement with Russia...
...until the last returns from the Coast. West Virginia came in for Eisenhower, voting Republican for the first time since going for Hoover against Smith in 1928. Los Angeles waited for San Francisco to record a slight margin for Stevenson (ascribed by West Coast commentators in part to Nixon's unpopularity there), then slapped it down with a smart plurality for Ike and Dick. With a jolt, South Carolina Democrats noted that they had carried the state for Stevenson only because Republicans (with 73,000) and independents voting for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd without his authorization...
...California, riding the crest of the Eisenhower wave and backed by Nixon, Knowland and Knight, amiable, conscientious Senator Tom Kuchel barely squeaked through in the fight to keep his Republican Senate seat from falling into the hands of flamboyant young (40) Democratic State Senator Richard Richards...