Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement emphasized that Eisenhower's disability is mild and transitory, and stated that it had nothing to do with his past heart attacks or any other illnesses. Vice President Nixon expressed confidence that the president "is fully capable of making" any major decision, although he stated that he didn't expect any major decisions to come up within "the next few days." He made his statement after speaking with Attorney General William P. Rogers, following the latter's conference with White House physicians...
Officials in Washington speculated that Nixon may take the President's place at the NATO conference, though some sources have suggested that other participating countries may prefer to go ahead with the meeting on a cabinet level, postponing a summit consultation until Ike could attend...
Implicit in Nixon's speech was the conviction, probably shared by most Americans, that the U.S. will shortly get its military house in order and its scientific talents mobilized. Beyond this short-range response, the Vice President pointed to a great opportunity to strengthen free nations by a program of free trade, investment, mutual economic assistance and rising living standards. Such a program would provide a counterattack against Communism in areas where the Communists have no weapons but misery...
...office at 8 o'clock the next morning he spent an hour discussing the Mutual Assistance program with Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Budget Director Percival Brundage. Then he ran an outsized (62 persons) National Security Council meeting, lunched with 51 leaders of the Crusade for Freedom, spent 50 minutes with the British Labor Party's U.S.-baiting, Russian-admiring Aneurin Bevan. He rounded out the day in an economic review with Bob Anderson, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., Economic Advisers Ray Saulnier and Gabriel Hauge...
...necessary at these affairs to track the Moscow press like sucker fish to locate the big sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke and the crowd had cleared for an instant, there they stood, Mikoyan very stiff, Gromyko looking amazingly like Dick Nixon, bemedaled Malinovsky, a benign, kewpie-doll Bulganin and then, as two shoulders parted, on a level with them was the pink, pleasant, unsmiling face of Nikita Khrushchev...