Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Savoy, got a nice introduction from the Pilgrims' Toastmaster Lord Birkett as "a product of that great American tradition that the village boy can rise to high office, [and] has invested the office of Vice President with higher importance and greater prestige than it has ever enjoyed." Nixon in turn made his tribute to Britain: "Every time an American citizen acts politically within the democratic context, we reflect our English heritage." That said, he turned to a basic principle of the Anglo-American alliance-collective security-that is popular in Britain, and pointedly applied it to a crisis that...
...Nixon's first gain: warm applause from the Pilgrims, a stilling of press criticism down to Beaverbrook press notes about his "Hollywood-style G-men" (he had two Secret Service men with him), about the "22-ft." length of his Cadillac...
...Next Best Thing." Next day the Nixons moved into royalty's orbit, and there, beside the Queen, began to make more British friends. In cold, misted St. Paul's, the Vice President watched the Queen dedicate the American Memorial Chapel, built out of British funds contributed by British families in the austerity-thin days after World War II. After that he lunched with the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, at the Queen's suggestion ventured beyond protocol chitchat to talk foreign policy. He called on Winston Churchill, made a little news by disclosing that Churchill...
There were warmups from Prince Philip and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (after Ike, said Mac, Nixon was "the next best thing"). Then Nixon spoke on winning "the victory of plenty over want." Khrushchev, he said, has called for an economic contest between systems. "I am sure that all of us would be delighted to accept the challenge. In such a contest no one could really lose . . . We need to apply in this field the same determination, willingness, and cooperation which enabled us to build the military strength which deters aggression today...
Night after that, treating the Queen to Thanksgiving turkey at the U.S. embassy residence, Nixon even got an unexpected human plus. Somebody in Washington forgot to pack his tuxedo; Nixon had to borrow one from a newsman, got nice press notices about "the man who came to dinner without his dinner jacket...