Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rockefeller said that he felt no political wounds from his recent junket into vice-President Nixon's home territory. He described the California venture as one of a series of trips which he plans to make before deciding whether or not to become a candidate...
...Angeles two dissimilar traveling candidates announced some similar ambitions. Indiana Congressman Charles Halleek admitted he was available as vice-presidential nominee on a Republican ticket with either Nelson Rockefeller or Richard Nixon. But, he added gloomily, "I don't think it's in the cards." And New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, who had just suffered a blow at home with the defeat of a school-bond proposal, was just as willing to take second place on the Democratic ticket: "Anyone who says he isn't interested would be kidding himself and kidding the public...
...Hampshire, the battle lines were drawn. Last week, one month after Nelson Rockefeller's friends set up a GHQ in Concord from which to wage his fight for next March's keynote presidential primary (TIME, Oct. 5), the advocates of Vice President Richard Nixon also pitched camp in Concord with a similar organization. Nixon's high-powered strategy board includes Senators Styles Bridges and Norris Cotton, and onetime Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks...
Quickly battling back, Capp proclaimed, "It is true that the elder Rockefeller did the equivalent of giving everybody in America a dollar. But Mr. Nixon has given us something twice as valuable--Richard M. Nixon." He said his announcement of Nixon's candidacy would come as a shock to the vice-President, who "has been all over the country" trying to do his present...
Capp spoke of Nixon's television appearance during the 1952 campaign, when the candidate refuted charges that "well-heeled California patriots had been slipping this boy $18,000 a year." Concluding, he said, "The great and compelling reason to put Nixon in the White House is that we can keep our eyes upon...