Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marked for postwar liquidation by the Nazis). Inside Asia was on Harry Truman's desk when he broadcast his V-J day speech. Inside Africa was studied dutifully by Russia's Dmitry Shepilov, who cited it in a United Nations tirade against British colonialism, and by Richard Nixon, whose party was weighted with copies of the book on his 1957 visit to Africa...
Although troubled with a minor back strain, Pat Nixon (who quietly celebrated her 45th birthday last week) showed up at the annual Republican Women's Na tional Conference in Washington, compared new spring hat notes with Mamie Eisenhower. Later, the First Lady learned that for the sixth time she had been chosen one of America's 14 best-dressed women by Manhattan's Fashion Academy, along with such well-tailored veterans as Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, a four-time choice, Mrs. Henry Ford (three times), and Radio-TV Burbler Maggi McNellis (eight times). A newcomer: Opera Diva...
...Senate Judiciary Committee, nine out of 15 members, led by Tennessee's Democrat Estes Kefauver and Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen, were co-sponsoring a bipartisan constitutional amendment designed to wrap up last fortnight's historic-but informal-Eisenhower-Nixon agreement that the Vice President becomes Acting President in event of presidential disability (TIME, March 17). But doubts were mounting about whether the amendment would ever get the needed two-thirds majority in the Senate and House. Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was noncommittal. One key reason: the great weight Johnson places on the opinions of his fellow Texan...
Mister Sam's stubborn stand left chances for action on presidential disability this session at something close to zero. And that also left the nation's security against chaos-by-disability resting solely upon the Eisenhower-Nixon agreement, which Mister Sam derides, with the prestige he has piled up in 45 years in the House and 13 years as Speaker, as little more than a scrap of paper...
...Knight has been beset by more breakdowns in recent months than a three-wheeled buckboard in a spring thaw. First off, Goodie, who wanted badly to run again for governor, was knocked off his seat by Senate Minority Leader Big Bill Knowland, who, with the support of Deadeye Dick Nixon, overran the Knight riders with big guns and big ambitions. Goodie thereupon picked himself up and allowed as how, on second thought, he would just as soon head East for Bill Knowland's seat in the U.S. Senate...