Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks before the elections TIME correspondents talked to dozens of Republican leaders in states where Nixon had campaigned. Almost to a man they were grateful for his efforts, well aware that Nixon need not have lifted a finger in the 1958 campaign had he wanted to duck a part in almost certain defeat. Last week those same leaders were still grateful. But hardly a Republican leader anywhere could keep Rockefeller's name out of the Nixon conversation. Said Illinois Republican Claude Kent, himself a staunch Nixonite: "We think we have a strong new contender in this other fellow [Rockefeller...
Republican Nixon had other problems as he got ready for 1960. President Eisenhower, always reluctant to take a hand in politics on a partisan, partywide basis, would be even less likely to help in the next two years. That left Nixon as the functional political head of the Republican Party, yet he would have to walk carefully to avoid stepping out of line with Ike, whose good will he would need now more than ever...
Before switching to his private plane at Caracas' Maiquetia Airport last week, he chatted in Spanish with a friendly crowd of 200 diplomats and newsmen. Was he out to beat Vice President Richard Nixon for the presidential nomination? "I'm not running against him or anyone else now," he said. Was he sent to improve U.S.Venezuelan relations? Rockefeller laughed. "No," he said...
...Stop the Presses!" As for 1958, Publisher Schiff probably would have insisted on a first-instance endorsement of Rockefeller ("I love Nelson"), if he had not had breakfast in Manhattan with Vice President Nixon ("Nixonism has replaced McCarthyism as the greatest threat to the prestige of our nation today"). Then Governor Harriman gave her a reason-by implying, in a radio broadcast, that Rockefeller was pro-Arab and anti-Israel. En route to Baltimore to visit the ailing mother of her fourth husband, Philanthropist Rudolf G. Sonneborn (and co-chairman of Democrats for Rockefeller), Dolly brooded and made...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16--Chairman Meade Alcorn has won the personal blessing of President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon and Gov.-elect Nelson A. Rockefeller for drastic moves to revitalize the Republican party after its disastrous Nov. 4 defeat. Alcorn, who presided over the worst licking the GOP has taken in years, ordinarily would be expected to bow out and let another man rebuild...