Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charges and counter-charges flew last night as each of two rival groups claimed the right to become the official Harvard Students for Nixon Club. After three hours of intense negotiations, four members from each group and one "independent" were selected for the provisional slate of officers in an evenly-split compromise agreement...
Rocky's Road? Highly placed, Nixon-minded Republican politicos whistle in the dark that New York's governor Nelson Rockefeller, 50, will bow gracefully out of a 1960 contest with Vice President Nixon, 46, before an argument that, runs thus: 1) Rockefeller partisans will soon discover that Nixon has a solid, unbreakable, nationwide hold on state chairmen, national committeemen and convention delegates; 2) Rockefeller will announce next spring that he will not be a presidential candidate and that he intends to run for re-election as Governor in 1962; 3) Nixon will be re-elected President...
...Percy. Ultimate choice: Thruston (rhymes with boostin') Ballard Morton, 51, elected Kentucky's junior Senator in 1956. Husky (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Thruston Morton, seventh-generation Kentuckian, is no politician-come-lately. He served three House terms (entered as a freshman with Congressman Richard Nixon). In 1952 he was the lone Eisenhower supporter in Kentucky's 20-man Taft-minded convention delegation. Later he became Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, got to know Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller...
Before he agreed to try for the chairmanship at this week's national committee meeting, Morton sounded out Rockefeller and Nixon. Nixon was enthusiastic. Rockefeller also approved, although Morton, who could swing considerable influence one way or the other in the 1960 convention, stated publicly last January: "Some people like Nelson Rockefeller. But I've been for Nixon for a long time, and nothing has happened to make me change my mind...
Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, and Central Intelligence Chief Allen W. Dulles, the ailing secretary's brother, met him at the airport when his plane arrived...