Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the American Academy of General Practice last week when they gathered in Washington for their annual convention. From President Eisenhower, a man who has had his days with specialists, they got formal greetings and an unexpected pat on the back, relayed through Vice President Nixon: "Give them my regards, Dick. They're the backbone of the profession." From a succession of cardiologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, urologists and other specialists, they got briefings on the latest in discoveries and techniques. From their newly installed president. Dr. John S. DeTar of Milan, Mich, (see below), they got a heartening report...
Vice-President Richard M. Nixon was invited by the forum but he refused pleading a prior engagement...
...does Nixon's past voting record come near the kind of Eisenhower Republicanism he is now supporting. Eisenhower strongly favors economic aid to under-developed nations, but Nixon not only opposed aid to Korea, (which was defeated by one vote in January, 1950) but he also was absent and unrecorded on Truman's Point Four Program. Eisenhower strongly favors drastic revision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, yet Nixon was one of the Senator's whose vote helped override Truman's veto. Eisenhower strongly favors a liberal, long-term Reciprocal Trade Program, yet Nixon in 1948 voed against a three...
While this voting record may be only a prelude to the "new" Nixon, one who now supports the United Nations, economic aid, and a liberal trade program, his latest statement on segregation shows that his sense of political expedieney does not always lead him to principles which Eisenhower has supported. After Nixon had dragged the Supreme Court into politics by praising a "great, Republican Chief Justice" for the segregation decision, Eisenhower himself had to repudiate the Vice-President and show that this issue, above all others, must be kept as far from politics as possible. Clearly, Nixon lacks the qualities...
Eisenhower's statesmanship has been the kind that can unify a nation, Nixon's antics are intensely partisan. Eisenhower's policy has been generally liberal; Nixon's real policy is totally elusive. As a quick-change artist of the worst sort, Nixon's entire political career makes current support for Eisenhower's Republicanism highly questionable. There are many independents and even Democrats who would support Eisenhower--but not if Nixon is on the ticket. If the President is really attempting to bring the Republican Party up to date, he had better make sure that his possible successor has principles...