Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from these blasts of criticism−the worst Dwight Eisenhower has ever suffered−that Richard Nixon and John Foster Dulles tried to save the Administration. Said Chicago Daily News Publisher John Knight: "While the Vice President is intensely loyal to the Administration, he is to be commended for talking so forthrightly when so many of the President's advisers are mouthing sheer nonsense.'' Wrote New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock: "It is the first orderly formula that a high officer of the Administration has offered." But even that orderly formula would be meaningless until...
...common-law wives and passels of little black bastards." Back home in Georgia, an A.R.F. cofounder, pudgy, rednecked Politico Roy Harris, was equally frank. Vowed Harris, often called the "kingmaker" of Georgia politics: "We're goin' to buy the houses next door to Hubert Humphrey and Dick Nixon and get us the biggest nigger families we can find to send up and move in. We're goin' to see just how these civil righters perform when the problem is across the street or next door...
...Kennedy paused, and for a brief, desperate moment there was more silence. Then Kennedy quickly added: "And now I challenge the Republican chairman to tell us where he stands on Eisenhower and Nixon!" The crowd came to its feet, alive, roaring and stomping its approval: Jack Kennedy had won it by his own display of courage and by turning all good Democrats against the odious Republicans. He was still a long, hard way from the Democratic nomination, but he had broken through a major roadblock...
Untainted Money. The urgency of the challenge was underscored by Vice President Nixon in a major policy speech that went well beyond any previous statement of foreign economic objectives by the Eisenhower Administration. For the black-tied delegates who live by business and were resigned to political oratory, Nixon's brass-tacks address at the main banquet of the conference was a rare surprise. Said Nixon: "The private initiative, the private responsibility and private capital which you represent are the motors of economic progress. The economic growth which you generate is vital to the future of the whole free...
Private capital, said the Vice President, is uniquely able to close the gap because, "in the old Roman phrase, 'it has no smell,' " i.e., it is not tainted with any ideology beyond the expectation of profit. Said Nixon: "It is not unreasonable to set as our goal doubling or tripling American investment abroad in the next ten years." To supplement the outflow of U.S. capital (current rate: $4 billion yearly), Nixon urged...