Word: nixon
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Amid the prayers there was some rustling in the church. In Manhattan Vice President Richard Nixon was the honor guest and principal speaker at the black-tie Lincoln Day Dinner of the National Republican Club. Nixon seized the occasion for the highest-powered G.O.P. attack on the leading Democratic presidential candidates to date. Adlai Stevenson, Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver and New York's Governor Averell Harriman are "three candidates in search of a crisis," said he. Then, singling out Front Runner Stevenson, Nixon added: "Unless he changes his present course, it will begin to look...
Former Vice-President Henry A. Wallace may debate Richard M. Nixon on "The Role of the Vice-Presidency" before the Law School Forum on March 30. Wallace has accepted the group's invitation but Nixon has not as yet replied...
Admittedly any judgment on political motives is difficult to make. Stevenson and Eisenhower, by urging a moderate approach to the problem and by questioning the need for Federal action at this time, may be making as much of a play for the Southern vote as Harriman and Nixon are for the Northern urban vote. Motives aside, however, when Harriman condemed the President for taking the riots over Miss Lucy "so lightly," and when Nixon credited a great Republican Chief Justice with engineering the Supreme Court decision, the two Presidential aspirants did both their parties and the progress of integration great...
...Council was holding its first meeting, other Stevenson followers expressed shocked horror. Obviously shaken, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther said Stevenson was "dead wrong this time." Moaned James Carey, chairman of the civil rights committee: "He wants the nomination, but he's setting up the election for Nixon...
Some Republicans, fearing that Dwight Eisenhower will not run again and caught up by the feeling against Vice President Richard Nixon, have looked hopefully toward Massachusetts and its G.O.P. governor, Christian A. Herter. But there was a nagging question about Herter's health; he has a medical history of arthritis. Last week able Chris Herter announced that he will not seek a third term as governor -thereby freeing himself to move on to bigger things. And he meaningfully pointed out to newsmen that his health was not a factor in his decision...