Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heard of Vice President Richard Nixon's stoning by agitators in Peru (see THE HEMISPHERE), commented admiringly: "Dick's got a lot of guts." Later, Ike dictated a warm personal message, which Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter relayed by radiophone as Nixon's party flew from Peru to Ecuador...
...Senator Bill Knowland is a politically ambitious man. He wants to be President. In order to beat out Dick Nixon for the nomination in 1960, he decided to come back here and run for governor. If he could beat out a popular governor [i.e., Knight] in the primary and then lick the most popular nominee the Democrats could put up [i.e., California's Attorney General Edmund G. Brown], he figured he would be almost invincible as a candidate for the presidential nomination...
...Lima's broad and sunny central plaza, the Vice President of the U.S. reverently laid at the base of a monument to Liberator Joseé San Martin a wreath whose entwined flowers depicted the Peruvian and U.S. flags. Outwardly Richard Nixon was at ease and confident; inwardly he had to consider warnings from Peruvian police and his own security people to skip the next stop on his program, Lima's 400-year-old University of San Marcos...
...unfortunate freshman got hit directly by a waterbomb. A Yard cop, standing near the soaked victim, commented, "You got more than Nixon got--you're the hero...
...thus to be hoped that in the future President Eisenhower will spend less time improving Mr. Nixon's public relations with statements about "courage, patience, and calmness" and more time improving this nation's public relations in South America. This will not be done with debates, speeches, and slogans, but with an effective foreign aid program and import tariffs that do not cripple our would-be allies in South America...