Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Positive Side. When the 1956 campaign became the job to do, Richard Nixon went about it characteristically. Within 48 hours after the Republican National Convention adjourned in San Francisco, he met in Los Angeles with a group of friends, e.g., California's Republican Congressmen Bob Wilson and Patrick Hillings, to work out policy, strategy and details. While some Republicans urged him to repeat his searing attacks of 1952, Nixon decided that, as a spokesman for the Administration in power, he would pitch his campaign largely on the positive side, outlining gains the U.S. has made under Dwight Eisenhower (buried...
...Nixon himself wanted to show his hornless head to the people of all 48 states, but G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall finally convinced him that this would be a senseless waste of energies. Instead, Nixon & Co. mapped three tours, one to touch as many states as possible, a second to concentrate on the weak spots, a third to work intensively in important and crucial areas. Convinced that the Democrats had started their campaign too early, Nixon decided to wait until mid-September, aim his campaign to reach its peak in the latter half of October, then sustain the high pitch...
Rash & Hustle. The first tour, which covered 15,000 miles and touched down at 32 states (including the exploration in Texas) was as much a pushing and probing operation as it was a personal campaign tour. Nixon talked long and late with local political leaders, reporting almost daily to the White House and the G.O.P. National Committee on what he heard. Fearful that complacency was overtaking an Ike-happy G.O.P., he emphasized the weak spots in his reports to Washington and in his conferences. The result: a rash of newspaper stories and columns late in September that the G.O.P...
...near the end of the first tour that Nixon made his own personal breakthrough. He headed for Hartford, despite warnings from some jittery Connecticut Republicans who thought that the anti-Nixon propaganda had created a serious antipathy toward him in the state. They told him not to expect much of a reception, to be prepared for small turnouts and open hostility. When he rode into Hartford's Bushnell Park at noon one October day a crowd of some 8,000 was there to greet and cheer him. Connecticut G.O.P. leaders were amazed; Nixon was reassured...
...time he began his second tour on Oct. 9, Republican candidates all over the U.S.-from New York's Senatorial Candidate Jacob Javits to Idaho's Senator Herman Welker-were begging for more Nixon time and effort. Ohio's U.S. Senator George Bender happily grabbed Nixon's coattails, crying, "Ohio loves Dick Nixon." It seemed to. At Defiance a crowd equal to a third of the town's population (12,500) turned out to hear him; in Warren more than 30,000 people lined the streets to cheer. The crowds and the confidence were growing...