Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your July 13 account of the Warren-Mazo explosion and Warren's 1957 petty blackballing of Nixon, I can only say there must be many today whose faith in Chief Justice Warren's considered judgment is now a thing of the past. That such a man is our Chief Justice must make "the lady in the harbor" wince...
History will surely sweep away all the lies and confusions of the time and will show that Earl Warren is a truly great man in the beautiful tradition of American democracy, and that Richard Nixon is a conniving, cheap demagogue-a perfect totalitarian. HORACE SCHWARTZ Mill Valley, Calif...
...home of the Vice President of the U.S. one evening so that he would not be late for dinner with the President. Two days later he flew from New York to Moscow in the Boeing jetliner that set a new speed record. There he dogged the steps of Richard Nixon, was so close at hand so much of the time that at one point in the historic "kitchen summit" at the U.S. exhibition, Nikita Khrushchev swung around, mistook Charlie for an official member of the party, and heartily pumped his hand in fine Nixon-Kefauver fashion. After filing his reports...
...orthodox diplomatic sense, but there were loud, serious, deadly earnest debates about the resources and strengths of the West and Communism. "One reason for the length of the debates," cabled TIME Correspondent Charles Mohr from Moscow, "is that Khrushchev finds it hard to believe that he cannot top Nixon, and so he keeps trying. Nixon on his own part has not been able to top Khrushchev, either...
...aspect the Nixon visit was just more evidence of the East-West thaw, the cultural exchange flow that has taken thousands of scientists, politicians, engineers, entertainers, students, athletes and tourists from one side of the Iron Curtain to the other. But the Nixon trip was more than that. The thaw, as envisioned by the Russians, would leave the U.S. so impressed with Soviet good intentions that the West would settle for harsh Soviet terms for peace. Nixon added something new to the exchange: assurance that the U.S. has its own goals, aims and ambitions for the orderly development...