Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost that same time, Harold Stassen was throwing in the towel on his dump-Nixon fight. Throughout the week, the haggardly smiling Stassen had endured small indignities: he was booed in the Fairmont Hotel; delegates flaunted insulting buttons saying. "stASSen" and "Stassen Stop Harassin'." Stassen could have taken all that if he had been making headway. But even he perceived that he had underestimated Dick Nixon's strength in the Republican Party. At the eleventh hour on Wednesday he went to Eisenhower, said he was giving up, asked permission to second Nixon's nomination that afternoon...
Between delegations on Monday, Nixon managed to find time for a luncheon trip to Fisherman's Wharf with newsmen and Dan Gainey, Minnesota jewelry manufacturer who backed Harold Stassen in 1948 and 1952 but has grown increasingly cool toward Childe Harold. No sooner had Nixon left his car for the block-long walk to the Exposition Grotto than a crowd began to gather. Nixon showed all the pump-handle efficiency of an Estes Kefauver in shaking hands with cab drivers, tourists, shopkeepers, cops, and everyone else he could reach...
...News. On roll-call day-Wednesday-Nixon had planned to see nine more delegations-but news from his home in La Habra, Calif, forced a cancellation. To Nixon's suite came a call from his brother Don: their father, Frank Nixon, 77, had suffered a partially ruptured abdominal artery, and seemed near death. The light went out of Dick Nixon's triumphal march to nomination: before 8 a.m., he and Pat were on the way home...
...Good Loser." To the two-story stucco house in a neglected La Habra orange grove came the news bulletin of Stassen's surrender. There Frank Nixon labored for life under a green oxygen mask. At the foot of his bed was a television set; on top of it rested the family Bible. Dick Nixon told his father about Stassen's surrender. The old man smiled, said painfully: "He's a good loser." Asked the son: "You heard that President Eisenhower opened his press conference by saying everyone is praying for you?" Replied his father: "Thank...
There, in his family's home, the Vice President watched his renomination on television. Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter, proposed by Stassen as the man to stop Nixon, himself made the nominating speech. Stassen was one of the seconders. An ex-Democrat from Nebraska, one Terry Carpenter, backed down after nominating a fictitious "symbol of an open convention" named Joe Smith (thereby setting off a spate of "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Joe Smith" editorials in the U.S. press). Governor "Goodie" Knight choked down his gorge and made the California announcement of 70 votes for Nixon. The nomination...