Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practical. But to a great many people Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Truman (yes, call them balloons) have meant something. and this something, though intangible, is politically important. At the moment, this something seems to be in the hands of the Ike-Republicans--Case, Javits, etc.--and this includes Richard Nixon. Perhaps the Congressional Democrats have realized that responsibility for Democratic programs cannnot be blithely cast off without political loss. Perhaps this explains Rayburn and Johnson in their "respectable" about-faces. These turn-abouts cannot be taken too seriously, however--they probably represent only a rapid calculation of a turning tide...
...Jacob Javits urged "my colleagues in my party not to abandon either the principles or the programs which have been proven by popular acceptance . . ." In Spokane. Attorney General Herbert Brownell defined the Modern Republican: "One who believes in and pressed for action on the 1956 Republican platform." Vice President Nixon reminded a Washington convention of the budget-whacking U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see BUSINESS) that "the budget is high, but it is a balanced budget, and the third balanced budget in a row." And Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson huffed that he was getting fed up with...
Hearing the talk, other speakers, notably Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Kennedy and Vice President Nixon, hurried to the Administration's defense, tried to persuade the Chamber to lay down its budget-chopping ax. Nixon pointed out that 60% of the budget goes for national defense, that unprecedented population growth demands increased social spending, that the budget is balanced...
...statehouse away from his fellow Republican, Governor Goodwin J. Knight, next year. If this is done, any reasonable scenario calls for Knowland to head straight for the presidential nomination in 1960-and run head-on into an even bigger battle with another ambitious Californian, Vice President Richard Nixon...
...part, "Goodie" Knight saddled up, too. He has no intention of giving way to Knowland, for easygoing Goodie likes being governor as much as he dislikes Knowland-and nearly as much as he dislikes Richard Nixon. And he is stone-cold to any deal that might have him running for Knowland's vacant seat in the Senate. Even in a state that already has a Knowland and a Nixon, Goodie thinks about 1960, and that potent weapon, the 70-man state delegation to the G.O.P. Convention. And beyond that, maybe even the big white ranch house down yonder...