Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the sparring and slugging of the civil rights fight finally ended last week, the political judges at ringside began picking the winners. The consensus, pending confirmation at the polls: the Republicans, as a party, by a decision-and Vice President Richard Nixon, as an individual, by a knockout...
Through the fight, long after G.O.P. Senate Leader William Knowland had thrown in the towel and when even House Republican Leader Joe Martin was considering retreat, Vice President Nixon punched hard for a meaningful bill. The verdict on his efforts was best rendered by his opponents. Just when the Senate was about to pass his watered-down bill, Democrat Johnson arose to attack Nixon for leading "a concerted propaganda campaign" against it. And last week, after the final vote on the civil rights bill had been taken, Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, the most influential Southerner of them...
...Wisconsin and in Washington, Republicans made no effort to disguise their shock. "There's no hiding the fact," said Dwight Eisenhower, via press secretary James C. Hagerty, "that we took a bad licking." Said Vice President Richard M. Nixon: "It was the old story of a united, vigorous minority party with a hard-fighting, resourceful candidate defeating a divided, bickering, over-confident majority." Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler called it "a smashing repudiation of the Eisenhower Administration and Modern Republicanism...
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...special interest in the Democrats v. Nixon contests was the fact that Tennessean Kefauver did as well in the Midwest, where he is still regarded as the farmers' friend, as in the South, which regards him as a civil libertarian. Massachusetts Catholic Kennedy trailed Nixon in the East, the Midwest and the Far West, picked up his entire advantage in the South, whose friendship he has been careful to cultivate, e.g., by his recent vote for the jury-trial amendment on the Senate's civil rights bill...