Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Play's the Thing. In New Haven, Conn., arrested after police found 3,021 lottery tickets in his home, turned up 1,144 °f the betting slips in the refrigerator, Ellsworth Nixon, 59, protested: "I collect old lottery bets as some people collect old stamps, old coins and pictures of baseball players...
...name Murray Chotiner, dropped into the Senate investigation of military uniform procurement frauds a fortnight ago, set journalistic and political antennas twanging all over Washington. Reason: in the political context of 1956, the name Chotiner goes with the name Nixon...
...President's press conference came the inevitable death-watch question: Had Vice President Richard Nixon yet told Ike whether he wanted to run again? Replied President Eisenhower: "No." But the President did not have long to wait. Next day Dick Nixon made what was-despite volumes of editorial cliff-hanging-the most predictable announcement of the year...
...Nixon slipped into the White House by a side door at about 3 p.m., conferred briefly with the President, later faced newsmen with Press Secretary James Hagerty at his side. Said Nixon: "I informed the President that in the event the President and the delegates to the convention reached the decision that it was their desire for me to serve as the nominee of the Republican Party for Vice President, I would be honored to accept that nomination . . ." Added Hagerty: "The President has asked me to tell you gentlemen that he was delighted...
Reaction in both parties was as predictable as the announcement itself. G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall, who has been predicting an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket almost every hour on the hour for months, described Eisenhower and Nixon as "the greatest pair of candidates ever presented to the American people." The Eisenhower Cabinet applauded when State Secretary Dulles expressed "the gratification I know my colleagues feel that the team this year is again going to be Ike and Dick." The Democrats, who mortally hate and fear Nixon, hoped mightily that his name would hurt the Republicans with independent voters. Democratic National Chairman Paul...