Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom all were looking to meet and match the Sputnik challenge, had been struck down. In Paris the NATO Council, acting on premature reports that there was no possibility of Ike's attendance at the Prime Ministers' meeting expressed'"satisfaction" that "Vice President Nixon would lead the U.S. delegation," and voted to go ahead with the conference as planned. But privately, European members of the Council admitted that they had done so partly to give the lie to Soviet propaganda that the NATO allies are nothing but U.S. satellites. "If Premier Menderes of Turkey were taken...
...delegation headed by the Vice President aroused active hostility. ("He is not one of us," complained a French official. "He doesn't know France, doesn't speak French, probably doesn't even drink wine."*) Even in NATO capitals where there is growing acceptance of Nixon's ability, it was an article of faith that a summit conference without Ike would lose much of its impact. Said a German Foreign Office spokesman: "You cannot delegate prestige...
...this time of anxiety, the West looked to the U.S. to provide a new sense of strength and resolution. The NATO allies would rather have it from Ike. whom they hold in admiration and familiar affection. But if Ike is incapacitated, they are quite ready to accept it from Nixon. The summit meeting would fail only if the U.S., whoever spoke for it, failed to provide that leadership...
...Nixon prefers Scotch, does not usually serve wine in his own home, but sips it dutifully when offered at ceremonial functions...
...press secretary, Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton (TIME, Nov. 18), is not a party to top-level Administration decisions-and not an experienced reporter. Though disgruntled newsmen accused Pressagent Wheaton of holding out on them when she protested her inability to answer their questions, the fact was that Vice President Nixon, Sherman Adams and other White House aides neither informed her of the real nature of Ike's illness nor consulted her on the abstrusely worded report in which Ike's doctors tactlessly took credit for being right in their "original diagnosis." After staving off suspicious newsmen until midafternoon...