Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latin American hostility to the United States is motivated chiefly by a personal dislike of vice-President Richard Nixon, asserted J. K. Galbrath, professor of Economics, in a letter published by the New York Times yesterday...
Galbraith, who recently returned from a two and one-half month trip through Latin America, discounted claims that the problems in Nixon's "unhappy journey of last spring" were the result of a deeper resentment of the United States. "We do ourselves serious injustice if we seek to explain away a strong popular dislike for Mr. Nixon by saying it applies to the country as a whole...
...Most people, at least in the university communities, have read about Mr. Nixon's early campaigns in California, his attacks, real or implied, on the patriotism of President Truman, and the indiscriminate tone of his intervention in other election contests," Galbraith explained...
...just Formosa, but the whole free world position in Asia. A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy." When Democrat Adlai Stevenson suggested a Formosa plebiscite to see whether Chiang Kai-shek should stay, Nixon shot back a suggestion for a plebiscite in Communist China to see whether the Reds should stay...
...week's end Nixon had worked such magic among Republicans that the Democrats were taking back all the nice words they had said about the "new Nixon." "The new Nixon," growled the Fair-Dealing New York Post, "bears a striking resemblance...