Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily News Capital Columnist Gwen Gibson reconnoitered the Washington front, reported a withdrawal in many quarters. The foremost reducers: Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 164 Ibs. (down 20 Ibs. in a year); Attorney General William P. Rogers, 170 Ibs. (lost ten); New York's Republican Representative Kenneth B. Keating, 155 Ibs. (down ten). Champion slenderizer: Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger, now a skinny (for his six feet) 163 Ibs.-30 Ibs. less than he weighed about four months...
Leaving the party faithful chuckling behind him (they gave Vice President Nixon a slightly warmer hand), the President boarded the Columbine. In two hours he was in balmy Augusta, Ga., and within 15 minutes after getting to Mamie's Cabin was out on the fairways, to shoot 15 holes before dark in a threesome that included Investment Banker Cliff Roberts and Manhattan Businessman (Cluett, Peabody & Co.) Barry Leithead. Early in the evening while playing bridge, the President was called aside by Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who told him that prospects were improving for a satellite blast-off that night...
...months the last holdout at the White House, President Eisenhower has at long last decided to dispense with the services of Perennial Politico Harold Stassen, the Administration's disarmament adviser, who stirred up a ruckus over Vice President Nixon's renomination in 1956, recently has undermined Secretary of State Dulles' disarmament policy by agitating for an agreement with Russia to end atomic tests. The details of Childe Harold's departure have not yet been decided, but he knows the route to the door...
Because New York's aging (66) Democratic Governor Averell Harriman has turned out to be a tough politician and a successful administrator, New York's Republicans have yet to put up a candidate to run against him in the November elections. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, a politician not given to unconsidered words, came close to naming one: Millionaire-Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49. Said Nixon, speaking in Manhattan at a luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club: "I think Nelson Rockefeller would make a far better governor of New York than Averell Hardman...
Washington's flap is eternal, and no sooner had Ike made his availability known than a storm brewed about Richard Nixon as his running mate. Harold Stassen, who was supposed to advise the President on international disarmament, urged dumping Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. Hagerty, who liked Nixon and thought he was the strongest candidate for Vice President, consulted the President, issued a statement pointedly reading Stassen out of the official Eisenhower family in his fight against Nixon. Later, when Nixon announced that he wanted a second term, Hagerty again went to Ike, came...