Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although the polls show that a Republican, Vice President Richard Nixon, is running miles ahead of any other presidential candidate of either party as the present choice of the voters, the Republicans are just as emphatically the minority party in the U.S. In a sampled nose count last week, the Gallup poll found that 56.2 million voters prefer the Democratic Party, 37.6 million like the Republicans, and 8.5 million are still undecided...
...Neutrals. Though President Eisenhower has taken a public position of neutrality in any contest involving Nixon, Rockefeller, or any other Republican candidate, his closest friends and associates have not. This was borne out emphatically at a stag dinner Dick Nixon attended recently in New York, heart of the Rockefeller domain. The guests were all intimate friends of President Eisenhower's -such men as Coca-Cola's Board Chairman William Robinson, General Electric's President Ralph Cordiner, Cities Service's Board Chairman W. Alton Jones, Financier Sidney Weinberg...
...they assured Nixon of their allegiance, echoed Len Hall's own words: "I'll do anything...
...relationship was sharply tested in his first big battle after taking over as Treasury Secretary: his quiet campaign in early 1958 to head off both Republicans and Democrats who wanted to try to cure the recession by cutting taxes. Within the Administration, Vice President Richard Nixon and Labor Secretary James Mitchell argued that it would damage the Republicans in the 1958 elections, and beyond, if the Administration let the Democrats grab the credit for combatting the recession by cutting taxes. On Capitol Hill, Sam Rayburn responsibly held off the Democrats who wanted to cut taxes, but he wavered...
...enough trouble with the farmers, performed a kind of ritual sacrifice by gulping down a bowl of cranberries in public to show that he was behind the industry. In Wisconsin, Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy loyally tossed off a couple of glasses of cranberry juice, and Vice President Nixon cheerfully ate four helpings of sauce. (Afterward, agents seized a tainted Wisconsin batch...