Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They talked for a few moments more, and then Ike said: "I think I had better go down and tell the reporters here." "Yes." said Dulles. They said goodbye. At the President's instruction, Press Secretary James Hagerty alerted correspondents, meanwhile passed the news to Vice President Richard Nixon, then to members of the White House staff in Washington, who told the State Department...
...friend, "he wouldn't even fix a library card for you.") In 1956, as an outstanding G.O.P. Governor, Herter reluctantly got involved in a Herter-for-President-if-Ike-decides-not-to-run movement, and then was dragged into fancy-free Harold Stassen's Herter-instead-of-Nixon drive. Herter slapped Stassen down by making a nominating speech for Nixon at the 1956 G.O.P. Convention...
...retirement of wide-traveling Secretary of State Dulles was almost certain to focus more attention on the Administration's other veteran of the diplomatic travelers' society: Vice President Richard Nixon, who has served as the President's effective personal ambassador in Asia (1956), Africa (1957), Latin America (1958) and Britain (1958). Last week President Eisenhower sharpened the focus by announcing that Nixon and wife Pat will go to Russia for three or four days in July to officiate at the opening of the $5,000,000 American National Exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park (TIME...
Though the trip is labeled "unofficial," Nixon-highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the U.S.S.R. since Franklin Roosevelt went to Yalta in 1945-will probably be accorded a typical Khrushchev welcome at the Kremlin, particularly if a summit conference is imminent. But chances are that Nixon would not attend the summit conference, since the President is reluctant to have both himself and the Vice President out of the country at the same time...
...Truman, 74, sprang a surprise on his listeners: U.C.L.A. has offered him a short-term regents' lectureship and "When I get here, you may be sorry!" On another whistle stop in Los Angeles, Campaigner Truman, addressing some rapt businessmen, looked ahead to 1960, backhandedly nominated Vice President Richard Nixon as his own preferred G.O.P. White House aspirant: "I hope [the Republicans] don't bury him until after the next election. He'll be the easiest to lick...