Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy got one more reason this week to wish that 1960 were closer around the corner. On top of his 870,000-vote re-election plurality, Kennedy last week had the word of the Gallup poll that he would walk away from Vice President Richard Nixon if the two ran for the presidency right now-and by a much fatter majority than in any of three earlier trial heats run by Gallup. Results (discounting the undecided...
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Beard the Critics. More and more as the press fog cleared, Nixon followed up his groups of critics, met them in public and private debates point by point. He argued with Laborite Chief Hugh Gaitskell and supporters against Labor's hopes for "disengagement" of allied military force in Europe, won Laborites' praise as levelheaded and responsible. He took a traditional ribbing from Oxford University students, who lost no time in pointing up the implied challenge to Nixon in the election victory of New York's Nelson Rockefeller, is IT ROCKY AT THE TOP? asked one placard...
...American student asked how Rockefeller affected "the problem of Republican leadership in 1960," and Nixon deftly noted how quickly Americans at Oxford picked up British understatement. Said Nixon: "If Rockefeller should get the nomination for the presidency in 1960, he will make an excellent campaigner and a fine candidate...
...Thus, as Nixon headed back home at week's end in an Air Force VIP DC-6B, Britain's press tacitly admitted that here, at least, was a man who knew his business thoroughly and therefore merited respect -in Britain, more than a casual recommendation, and for U.S.-British friendship more than a casual plus. Summed up the New York Times's London Correspondent Drew Middleton: "Nixon arrived billed as an uncouth adventurer in the political jungles, departed trailing clouds of statesmanship and esteem. In four days here filled with opportunities for the most horrendous mistakes...