Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rayburn of the Texas-born President: "I long ago told him that he was my most distinguished constituent." On the Senate side, Ohio Republican George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel and the members of the 84th Congress scattered to take up their cam paign cudgels...
...politics. Long disappointed in his presidential passion, his daily feuds with such as Joe McCarthy grown pale and wan, Stassen, at 49, felt the need to fare forth in quest of new political ad ventures. Last week he fared forth. He urged that the G.O.P. dump Vice President Richard Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter...
With President Eisenhower away in Panama, Harold Stassen called a news conference and, in gentle tones, read a prepared statement. He had, said Harold, received the results of private polls that showed Nixon running last to Herter's first among Republican vice-presidential possibilities (one of the others listed in the polling was Harold Stassen). The polls indicated that Nixon's name on the ticket would cost Ike about 6% of the vote this fall, said Stassen. He stoutly maintained that he was acting only as a private citizen, not in his capacity as the President...
White House aide; later, 180 of the 202 G.O.P. Representatives pledged their support to Nixon. In Panama Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty snapped that Stassen could not have made his statement as "a member of the President's official family." Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall said flatly: "My own prediction is that the ticket will again be Eisenhower and Nixon...
...opinion given by Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government at Harvard, tended away from the position held by Hartz and Kohn. Beer, who personally "abhors" the idea of being governed by Nixon if he should succeed to the presidency, believed that a ticket with Nixon would be a balanced...