Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mistaken by tourists for a Senator, McConaughy liked the members of Congress, and they liked him. He averaged about five miles a day walking down congressional corridors into congressional offices, was a welcome guest in congressional homes, an after-hours regular in the private sanctums of Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He played a leading part in covering the 1952 and 1956 presidential nominating conventions for TIME, crisscrossed the U.S. both before and during the campaigns. He dogged the footsteps of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy for six years...
...valiant try to crush the panic, Vice President Richard Nixon (who is indebted to Adams for having helped prevent the strong dump-Nixon move during the famed 1952 expense-account troubles that wound up in the Checkers speech) got up at a meeting of state Republican chairmen last week in Washington and warned: "The trouble with Republicans is that when they get into trouble they start acting like a bunch of cannibals." Still, the chairmen themselves were inclined to let Adams stew in the cauldron. Of the 42 attending the meeting, 13 thought that Adams ought to quit; twelve shakily...
...talks with President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles and their staffs, President Garcia sought $400 million in U.S. loans to be spread over the next three years to ease the Philippines' chronic trade deficit. "It was taken with a great deal of sympathy by the President," said Carlos Garcia, and at talks' end he got loans of up to $125 million, with an understanding that more might be available next year and the year after that if the $125 million is wisely spent...
...better luck than Nixon," said Conductor Leonard Bernstein, "but then he's in a different line of business. All we did was play music." The New York Philharmonic was completing a 38-concert, twelve-country tour of Latin America that lit a fire of good will from one end of the continent to the other. Back home this week. Conductors Bernstein and Dimitri Mitropoulos and the 107 members of the orchestra were to be hailed at New York's city hall for a job superbly done...
...week garbage strike. In La Paz some of the players got high-altitude sickness, and in Santiago they played in an open sports arena with 30 electric heaters strategically spotted about the stage. But in Lima, days after a crowd had tried to break up the Nixon tour, the orchestra got an ovation when it played The Star-Spangled Banner...