Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only improvement that can be made to an Ike-Nixon ticket would be a Nixon-Ike ticket, with a guarantee that Mr. Stassen is on a permanent leave of absence. Stassen has only one argument, which is: Nixon is a real Republican and he has made Democrats angry. This year the liberal voters do not like Nixon; why should they? If they did, they would not be liberal. I am not using liberal in its old sense, but rather in the modern sense, which has come to mean a pink...
TIME'S apparent preference for an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket is commendable, but its patronizing treatment of a countermovement is scarcely so. If Nixon's renomination jeopardizes the election of a Republican Congress, then his replacement by Governor Herter (or some other respected public servant) must be seriously considered...
...could not get a flat endorsement from Adlai, had been trying for three days to persuade Stevenson to throw the nomination wide open. Stevenson finally gave in to their main argument: that the Democrats might be able to stir up more trouble for their favorite campaign target, Vice President Nixon, by inviting a sudden-death competition in their own ranks. Immediately after the convention nominated him, Stevenson went to a two-room suite (decorated with prints of American birds, e.g., the black-billed cuckoo and the boat-tailed grackle) in the Stock Yard Inn, next to the convention amphitheater...
Could it be that Richard M. Nixon is just too whole-souled, forthright and outspoken a Republican to suit all these internationalists, whether Republican, Democratic or Communist? In all the furor whipped up by the egregious Stassen, I have heard nothing worse charged against...
...front of them as these old soldiers fold their tents and just fade away." Clement conjured up florid images of Eisenhower, a genial, glamorous and affable general who had joined the Republican Party after he had reached the age for retirement from the Regular Army, and of Richard Nixon, "the Vice-Hatchetman slinging slander and spreading half-truths while the top man peers down from the green fairways of indifference." Dwight Eisenhower, cried Clement, "cannot Jim Hagertize his way through this whole campaign...