Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice-president Nixon's legislative assistant, Charles K. McWhorter, will speak twice at the University today, sponsored by the HYRC...
...were enough to get him narrowly elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1952, and his skilled, if unspectacular, performance was enough to get him overwhelmingly re-elected in 1954. In 1956, his gubernatorial career about to end, Herter became Harold Stassen's unwilling selection for Vice President against Richard Nixon (Herter publicly rebuffed Stassen, himself made a nominating speech for Nixon). Soon after the 1956 elections, Dulles called on Herter to rejoin the State Department as Under Secretary...
...Guilt. When Russia's No. 2 boss, Anastas Mikoyan, came to the U.S. last month, the State Department decided to try again. But amiable Anastas turned back the pleas of both Vice President Nixon and Secretary of State Dulles; he was, in fact, highly irritated by U.S. insistence that the Russians were withholding the truth, as well as the eleven men. State decided to give the Russians just one more chance: perhaps Mikoyan would swing around after he returned to Moscow and talk it over with other officials...
...part hot potato because it will be easy to offend both labor and business in investigating their cost-pushing practices. It is part plum because it gives Nixon an opportunity to improve his 1960 presidential prospects by doing a big and important job. The committee will be a "continuing" body, said the President's announcement, and in '60, it is safe to bet, it will be going like...
...Washington's Landon School; and the season's final musicale last week, when Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn was honored by the appearance of Rudy Hansen, a cowboy guitarist from New Jersey. Just about the only real pro (who appeared at a dinner honoring Vice President Nixon) was Lawrence Welk. Sneered Coe: "If I were a world figure, I certainly wouldn't want to listen to that kind of thing...