Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear, when the Democrats tried to knock out a provision permitting an increase of interest rates on G.I. loans from 4½% to 4¾%-an increase that will encourage private lenders to handle the now-shunned G.I. loans. The increase was permitted to stand only because Vice President Nixon threw his vote to the Republican side to break a 47-47 tie. ¶ With the help of six Republican votes, the Senate Public Works Committee followed Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore in unanimously authorizing an additional $600 million speedup in road building this year. The Administration...
While walking his tightrope, Nixon has made himself the most useful vice president in history. He has taken six trips abroad as the President's representative, and a Latin American tour is planned for this spring. He presides over both the National Security Council and the Cabinet when Ike is absent. He has consistently gone all-out for Administration programs, even those that are unpopular with large and powerful Republican groups; e.g., Nixon is a leading spokesman for foreign aid and liberalized foreign trade...
Hard Sell? But in recent months Nixon's dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower Administration's political savvy has caused him to take political stands independent of the White House, leaving the President free to disown him if he goes too far. Thus, while White House spokesmen were still scoffing at Sputnik I as a "silly bauble," Nixon publicly proclaimed the Russian satellite a serious, important challenge to U.S. technology. He works hard with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to bolster the morale of Republican organizations across the country, privately wishes that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson would resign...
What happened dramatizes Nixon's dilemma: he is by far the leading candidate for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination.* That nomination may be hardly worth having if the Administration fails to sell its record in the political market. But if Nixon jumps out and oversells, he might lose the good will of the only man who could deny him the nomination, Dwight Eisenhower himself...
...Gallup poll showed last week that Nixon is favored for the G.O.P. nomination by a whopping 64% of Republican voters, as against 48% last November, and by 40% of independents, against 24% in November. Runner-up among Republicans: California's Senator William Knowland, with 9%. Among independents: Harold Stassen...