Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foolish can the Democrats, including ex-President Truman, get? That A.P. picture in your March 3 issue of Harry and Faubus shaking hands across the table is good for hundreds of thousands of votes for Nixon...
Musical Chairs? Last week the President published the terms of a precedent-making answer to the 170-year-old problem of presidential disability that he has worked out with Vice President Nixon. The gist: in the event of disability, 1) the President would, if he were able, call in the Vice President to take over as Acting President, to perform all presidential acts and fulfill all presidential duties; 2) the Vice President would, if the President were not able, and "after such consultation as seems to him appropriate," decide whether to declare the President unable and take over as Acting...
Amendment or no, the Eisenhower-Nixon agreement had created a vital new precedent-and in the developing federal system, precedent itself tends to blast away or to outpace deadlock.* The immediate result is that Nixon no longer need hesitate to exercise authority in the event of a disabling presidential illness. And because of that, other Vice Presidents to come will pay more attention to the affairs of the presidency, well aware that they will be expected to assume the responsibility in crisis...
...broad sense there was no saner warning to U.S. policymakers at week's end than Dulles' own press conference advice: "If we try to outdo ourselves in the spectacular, then we are leading the world in a very dangerous way indeed." To this Vice President Richard Nixon added, in an interview filmed in Washington and televised in London: "History shows that the road to war is paved with conferences that failed...
...have been sent to your country as ambassador of peace," he proclaimed, and as he began to gravitate around official Washington, usually accompanied by his handsome wife, often talking about "my four kids," he seemed bent on making a case for it. Menshikov paid beaming calls upon Eisenhower (twice), Nixon (once), and Dulles (twice). He skirted precedent by calling upon members of the President's personal staff, first off Sherman Adams, explaining with a big smile that "I'm not very strict on protocol...