Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holiday at Home. After seeing Mohammed off on Thanksgiving , morning (and presenting a "Miss America" doll from his daughter Patricia for Mohammed's daughter Amina). Nixon stopped briefly at the White House, then went home. Pat Nixon had roasted the 9-lb. turkey; Nixon's mother, Mrs. Hannah Nixon, had baked an apple pie; daughter "Tricia" had made paper nut holders shaped like Pilgrims' hats. Daughter Julie had worked all morning making place cards of yellow paper, taken from the work pads in her father's den, brightly colored with crayon. The Vice President...
Back at the White House, Nixon stepped into a news conference in Presidential News Secretary James Hagerty's office. Clearly and carefully, Nixon spelled out the operation of government during Ike's illness. What was his personal part? Said Nixon: "My role at the present time, I think, is best described by my title. I am the Vice President." Said a newsman: "Now I realize this may be a somewhat embarrassing question to put to you ..." Nixon broke in: "No questions are embarrassing." Continued the reporter: "Do you have any reason to believe that the President...
...time the conference ended, Nixon had less than an hour to get to Mohammed's dinner. Standing before television cameras outside the White House, he said over his shoulder to a Secret Service man: "I'm all shaved, so just tell them to lay out the tails and white tie." He made it to the Mayflower Hotel affair almost on time, looking fresh, with an optimistic reply to the question on everyone's mind. Passing Nixon in the reception line, Pakistan's Ambassador Mohammed AH asked about President Eisenhower. "Much better," said Nixon...
Against the Wind. The rest of Nixon's week was given over mainly to hammering out the Administration's program for presentation to legislative leaders. Friday morning the conference was with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; that afternoon the Agriculture Department proposals were discussed; next morning it was the Mutual Security program. The style of the sessions was informal, generally on a first-name basis, although some officials, e.g., Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, alternated between "Mr. Vice President" and "Dick...
...each conference, the involved department argued its case, Budget Director Percival Brundage gave cost estimates and advice, Sherman Adams offered pithy guidance, and Richard Nixon summed up the discussions. He used President Eisenhower's recent Oklahoma City speech-which laid down the rule that nonessential spending must give way to defense in Sputnik's day-as a broad outline. Did the proposed program meet the requirements of that speech? If so, it was approved. If not, more work had to be done. At the meeting on Mutual Security, Nixon repeated a phrase he has come to use with...