Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silly can some Republicans get? They rival the A.D.A. and Harry Truman in their hatred of Nixon. I consider Nixon, with his forthrightness, about the best asset in the Republican exhibit...
Anyone in his right mind should not even consider letting Ike decide who should be Vice President. I sincerely believe Mr. Nixon should be running the Government...
...combination of hot air and cold political calculation can stir up a squall in almost any year, and such were the ingredients of the storm that swirled around the head of Vice President Richard Nixon. The cold calculation came from the Democrats, who have long made Nixon their favorite target. The hot air came principally from columnists and other pundits who reasoned that the Democrats had made Nixon a political liability and therefore Ike might drop him from the ticket. For Nixon, it was like being in the eye of a hurricane...
Last week President Eisenhower dispelled the storm with as flat a statement as a presidential candidate is ever likely to make about his prospective running mate. "Anyone," said the President at his news conference, "who attempts to drive a wedge between Dick Nixon and me is-has just about as much chance as if he tried to drive it between my brother and me ... I will say it in exactly the terms I mean: I am very happy that Dick Nixon is my friend. I would be happy to be on any political ticket in which I was a candidate...
...beginnings, had turned into a phenomenon so real that it had fooled many a Republican. G.O.P. Chairman Len Hall was one of the first to see it coming and tried to head it off; immediately after Ike announced his intention of running for a second term, Hall hailed Nixon as a "great American," adding, "and a great American is, in my opinion, a strong candidate...