Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...receiving line broke up, swirled around the Nixons. "You did a great job, damn your soul," beamed South Caro lina's Democratic Representative Mendel Rivers to Republican Nixon. And then, to President Eisenhower: "Didn't he do a wonderful job?" Pennsylvania's Republican Representative James Fulton shouted to Mrs. Nixon: "How about a kiss for the President, Pat?" The President ducked away, grinning, lifting a shielding arm: "Dick is here, and Dick still carries a wallop." On a temporary speaker's stand, President Eisenhower nudged Pat Nixon, pointed to one of the dozens of placards bobbing...
Finally, the President waved for quiet, spoke into a battery of microphones. "All America welcomes them home," said Dwight Eisenhower. "We stand together in condemning any kind of Communist leadership of any such incidents as endangered our beloved Vice President and his wife." Replied Nixon: "I don't think that either of us has ever been so moved . . . returning as we do." Minutes later the homecoming caravan rolled away from the airport, along streets lined with 100,000 people, under a triumphant arch of fire-engine ladders, to the White House, where Nixon spent the next hour...
...Tuck. Both the President and Dulles had been living anxiously on the edge of Nixon's trip since Tuesday, when Ike got first word at a White House luncheon of the Venezuelan mob attack on the Nixons (see HEMISPHERE). The President's first move was to order Dulles to find out from the Venezuelan embassy if its government was able to protect the Nixons. He added: "We had better find out what we have militarily in the area." The President called Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining. Under Secretary of State Christian...
...challenge of South America, for what it told about the national frame of mind and will to deal with problems once defined, was the most heartening. Back from the humiliation at the hands of Communist-led mobs in Venezuela came Vice President Richard Nixon. His first concern was not with redressing his personal grievances but with setting right the things that he had found wrong with U.S. policy in Latin America; it was challenge and response. On this course his perennial enemies the Democrats agreed, even though they swung on Nixon as a political target as a result...
...flag that was dragged in the dirt at Caracas was the flag of all of us. The spittle that struck Nixon and his wife was meant for all of us. And the perils which the Nixons braved were braved...