Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Believe ..." The Richard Nixon who appeared on television screens to accept his nomination was a long way from the scowling, black-bearded mudslinger that the Fair Dealing cartoonists had led their readers to expect. Simply and eloquently, he set forth his party's beliefs. "We believe," he said, "that government should be a partner with business and with labor and not a partisan to encourage one to fight with the other . . . We believe in human welfare but not the welfare state. We seek social gains, but we reject completely the well-intentioned but mistaken theories of those who would...
Only at the end did Nixon permit himself a reference to that which weighed heaviest on him. "The skill of the fine doctors who are attending my father," he said, "could not possibly have equaled the lift which he has received from the events for which you were responsible yesterday. For that we thank you. Goodbye and good luck...
...line of attack which the Democrats mean to push hardest is that the Old Guard of the Republican Party took over in San Francisco to insure that Richard M. Nixon again would be Vice President and their skillful agent at the center of government in the four years to come...
...much too early to say whether this will be effective in winning the independent middle-ground vote which went in large numbers for the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket four years ago. But to call the Republican managers the "Old Guard," is a major error...
...renomination of Vice-President Nixon is not merely a triumph for the man, but for the common sense of the Republican party's leadership. Long before President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, the whispering campaign against Nixon was, under way. In fact, it was initiated about eighteen months ago by certain extremist groups which resented bitterly his exposure in 1949 of Alger Hiss. It seems odd to suggest that any one should be disqualified for high office just because he offended his political opponents, but that was the main basis for a rash of articles and broadcasts from Democratic...