Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cadillacs, Please. Also growing was the press corps' respect, if not its liking, for Candidate Nixon. Dogging his every step were more than a score of curious, probing, and sometimes suspicious reporters, more than had ever before consistently covered a vice-presidential candidate. Day after day he held press conferences (he has held more than 50 during the campaign) and answered in great detail questions on everything from the Eisenhower Administration's policy in the Suez crisis to statements he had made on the Fifth Amendment a decade ago. He also showed some deft footwork. In Toledo...
...televised college press conference at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., some of the traveling reporters stood on the sidelines and slipped the college students headline-making questions. Prompted by a traveling reporter, a persistent student editor taxed Nixon about his failure to mention Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson in his speeches. Would Nixon favor the retention of Benson in the Eisenhower Administration, and why had he avoided mentioning Benson? Replied Nixon: "When I go into the state where a Cabinet Secretary lives, I then give him his commercial ... I mentioned Mr. Benson in Utah . . . The first part...
...time Nixon's second tour ended, some of the reporters who had started out openly hostile had a new impression. Riding in his United Air Lines DC-6B, the "Dick Nixon Special," they were astonished by the thoroughness and efficiency of the operation.* At the back of the aircraft there was a private cabin serving as the candidate's office; there was also a work area, with typewriters and a duplicating machine, for his staff. At times the staff numbered 13, including two secretaries, two press aides, a tour manager and a doctor. A corps of advance...
Chart & Report. In the candidate's cabin, not a moment was wasted. Wearing a plaid smoking jacket (to keep his coat unwrinkled for the day's appearances), Nixon received the daily "tip" by his staff on the situation at the next stop: population of the town (broken down by ethnic groups), its prides and its problems, its political complexion, the situation in the congressional races, the people who should be mentioned in his speech. Said one staff report as the plane droned over Texas: "San Antonio is a popular winter resort and a haven for many elderly people...
Always up to date was a chart that showed the whereabouts and activities of other key campaigners-President Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson and former President Truman (Nixon largely ignored the travels, of Estes Kefauver). From the chart, Nixon could be sure that he was not upstaging Ike in the next day's headlines, and also could know when and what he should be saying in countering Stevenson and Truman. Every day he received from Washington a report prepared by ten staff members of the White House and the Republican National Committee, summarizing the national political situation. Excerpt: "In his statement...