Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the Nixon campaign days are 18 hours long; the toughest of them begin at 7 a.m. and end at 3 a.m. the next day, only to begin again at 7. When Nixon was hit by the flu in September (TIME, Oct. 8), he refused to slow down, ordered his doctor to stoke him with antibiotics and vitamin pills and spray his throat with cortisone. Although he eats little on campaign tours (a light breakfast, a sandwich on the road, a snack before his evening speech, an attempt at dinner afterward), he actually gained two pounds on his first...
...Stature. By last week Campaigner Nixon had good reason to know that all of his effort had paid off. On his third and final swing, he rolled through Michigan on a special train drawing bigger crowds than Adlai Stevenson had drawn along the same route a week earlier. They were warm crowds; newsmen could find no trace of "that anti-Nixon feeling." There were 2,200 at the railroad station in Lansing, 5,000 at Battle Creek, 2,500 at Kalamazoo (about twice the crowd Stevenson drew) and 2,000 at Niles. Across Lake Michigan, in Chicago's Loop...
...moved into the final stage of his 1956 campaign, Nixon clearly saw the makings of a big Eisenhower sweep, and he was hopeful that it would be big enough to pull a Republican majority into the House of Representatives. (On the Senate he wasn't guessing.) Quick to sense the weakness of Adlai Stevenson's H-bomb proposal (it attempts to hit Eisenhower where he is strongest), Nixon set out to tie it to Democratic candidates for Congress. His challenge: "In view of the terrible danger this program presents, it is time for all candidates for national office...
Long after the campaign of 1956 has ended, Republican candidates for the Senate and House-and their state and county chairmen-will remember the efforts of Richard Nixon. In his decade of service as an unashamed Republican working for the principles that have become the basic philosophy of the Eisenhower Administration, he has built close, personal friendships deep in the party organization all over the U.S. On a much broader scope, he has this year shown that there is a clear, direct line of communication between him and the American people. These achievements, coupled with the unprecedented importance...
...Wrote Columnist T.R.B. (the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout) in the rabidly anti-Nixon New Republic: "On the Nixon caravan everything goes right, on the Kefauver Special everything goes wrong . . . With genuine perplexity Republican columnists ask, 'Why is it people dislike Richard Nixon?' Honestly we don't know. We puzzle about it. Maybe it is because he flashes his smile off and on so like an electric light. (Kefauver rarely smiles or laughs or anything; occasionally there is a wide, quarter-moon grin...