Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news board offers undergraduates an opportunity to come into contact with leading figures on both the College and national levels. In the last week, for example, news writers have met and traveled with Adlai Stevenson and Richard Nixon. A candidate for the news board, in addition to meeting people and going places, will find that constant advice and criticism will considerably improve his writing...
Forecast. By comparison, the Nixon and Stevenson campaign tours are models of sober efficiency. The pampered newsmen with Stevenson need not even bother to register at their hotel stopovers; their keys are handed to them as they enter. Buses and police escorts are prompt; breakfast is invariably hot as the plane takes off each morning, and the Stevenson press staff, headed by Clayton Fritchey, gets all the speeches out in advance. But newsmen with Stevenson travel in a separate plane, get less access to the candidate than those with Nixon and Kefauver...
...Nixon Press Secretary James Bassett, on leave as city editor of the Los Angeles Mirror-News, gets out copies of major speeches as much as 36 hours in advance. Another unusual press service has been offered by New York Timesman William Blair. At Nixon's first press conference in Indianapolis, Blair sat in the front row and held up a small microphone that led to a miniature wire recorder in a shoulder holster. Since then the reporters have been checking their quotes with Blair's machine, and even the Nixon staff has regularly consulted "dicky bird...
...rush, the reporters manage to pour out a steady flow of copy: 80,000 words a day from Stevenson, 40,000 from Nixon, 15,000 from Kefauver. Privately, though 27 felt uncertain about the election's outcome, 36 out of the 44 who ventured a forecast picked the candidate who has yet to hit the campaign trail: President Eisenhower...
...himself unable to give Stevenson direct support, his indirect help to Stevenson and the Democratic party is sizeable. Truman can still attack the Republicans with a skill that warms the hearts of loyal Democrats. Occasionally Truman will forget himself, and, relishing every word, plunge a choice phrase into Richard Nixon. In Boston he said, "You can't elect Ike without electing Tricky Dicky too!" During the shouts and applause that followed, Truman smiled slowly as if to say, "I can still do it, when I want...