Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never heard of Murray Kempton of the New York Post before, and if it is humanly possible I shall never hear of him again. His editorial on Vice President Nixon in your Sept. 3 issue is about the most crude and pointless piece of writing it has been my misfortune to read. Mr. Kempton is frantically groping to find a point on which to criticize when he must resort to making vulgar and sneering remarks on the Vice President's dress. Constructive criticism is good for everyone, but Murray Kempton's ill-chosen words are offensive...
Running David Lawrence's item immediately following Murray Kempton's was extremely efficacious. Kempton's article, which is typical of the absurd and insubstantial material utilized as verbal bombast against Nixon, adequately proves Lawrence's contention [that the renomination of Nixon was a vindication of the Vice President over the long "whispering campaign about his lack of integrity"]. The Democrats, not unlike the Communist propagandists in their techniques of unfactual and slanderous invective against Nixon, have yet to provide evidence from which they can justify the vilification of the Vice President...
Kempton's scurrilous remarks spur me on to campaign even harder for Vice President Nixon's re-election this fall...
...short studio address next week will be the first of only "five or six" televised speeches. But, as Ike himself pointed out last week, there are "a number of invitations you have to consider," and so far his TV plans have not firmed up. Early next month Nixon will make his first national telecast, reporting on his upcoming swing through 32 states...
Died. Francis Anthony (Frank) Nixon, 77, father of Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, onetime telephone lineman, who settled in California, married Hannah Milhous (1908), became a successful storekeeper; of lung congestion, 13 days after the rupture of an abdominal artery suffered the day of his son's renomination; in Whittier, Calif...