Word: nixon
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...series of important appointments, e.g., that of Herbert V. Prochnow, 58, a Chicago banker, as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. By week's end the President was well enough to hold his first important business conferences since he became ill, conferred twice with Vice President Richard Nixon (see below). This week he planned to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the forthcoming Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference in Geneva...
...Adams' Denver day usually began with a round of telephone calls to Washington, in which he reported on President Eisenhower's condition and talked business with Vice President Nixon and other officials. Each afternoon, after a careful check with the presidential physicians, he visited the patient for ten minutes or more. Before he went in, he decided what matters should be brought to the President's attention; then he cleared his agenda with the physicians. When he submitted a paper for signature, it was in as good order as was possible, it had been cleared...
...Chief of Staff." By 7:30 the next morning Adams was at his desk in the White House, ready to meet with Vice President Nixon and to give the Cabinet and the NSC a detailed report on the President's condition. Throughout two days in Washington he conferred with members of the White House staff to question, discuss and weigh matters connected with the problem of keeping the executive department running...
...week Richard Nixon went steadily about the task of being considerably more than a Vice President but substantially less than a President. Again he presided at meetings of the National Security Council and the Cabinet; every day he visited the White House executive offices to confer with presidential aides on day-to-day business; pointedly he announced that the Eisenhower team was carrying on cooperatively without any sign of "internal disputes and jealousies." Time and again he waved away questions on politics, insisting that he would not discuss the political situation until the President is back...
Word from the Voters. In Pollster George Gallup's first G.O.P. sounding since President Eisenhower became ill, Republican voters gave Nixon a slim lead for the G.O.P. presidential nomination next year. Gallup's question: "Here is a list of men who have been mentioned as possible presidential candidates in 1956 for the Republican Party. If Eisenhower is not a candidate, which one would you like to see nominated?" The top runners...