Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home in Washington, the conference was watched with an intensity and a hopefulness that matched Europe's. At the White House, Vice President Nixon, presiding at a Cabinet meeting, asked Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson to open the meeting with an invocation...
...warmongers from the peacemakers. The American people yearn for peace-peace that will maintain their traditional freedoms . . . This proposal is our pledge of sincerity and good faith." This week, when the President flew in to Washington, he was greeted by a throng that included Vice President and Mrs. Nixon, Senator Knowland, other members of Congress and the diplomatic corps. As he stepped out of the Columbine III, the band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner, and the President stood motionless, his hat over his heart, as the rain of a summer shower spattered down on him.* Then, before a rosette...
...Vice President Richard Nixon banned umbrellas, because he felt that they would have recalled the pre-World War II appeasement policies of Great Britain's umbrella-carrying Prime Minister Sir Neville Chamberlain...
...meeting with the leaders of the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France: he would seek peace, but he would not sacrifice principle. He briefed congressional leaders on how he proposed to employ that philosophy at Geneva, and he promised them "frequent progress reports" through cables to Vice President Richard Nixon. Late into one night he sat with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in the second-floor study of the White House, where Abraham Lincoln used to read the Bible every morning before breakfast, and finished battening down the U.S. position...
...Washington, the Defense Department announced that, having completed two correspondence courses in 1953 and successfully made his point quota, Vice President Richard M. Nixon had been promoted to the rank of commander in the Naval Reserve...