Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africa to watch the birth of the new nation of Ghana, Vice President Richard Nixon paused between ceremonies to greet another observer from home. To Montgomery, Ala.'s Rev. Martin Luther King, the Vice President remarked : "I recognized you from your picture on the cover of TIME . . . That was a mighty fine story about you." The two promised to meet again in Washington, and Nixon went about the vice-presidential business of winning African friends for the U.S. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, With Pat & Dick in Africa...
...rolled to a stop on the tarmac, Nixon was still going strong despite a feverish head cold and the wearing effects of the bumpy, eleven-hour flight. He exchanged formal speeches with government leaders, remained at the airport for 20 minutes to acknowledge the thunderous cheers ("Freedom! Freedom!") of some thousands of Ghanians massed behind a fence at the edge of the flag-ringed field to greet him. Quipped the Vice President, leaning over the white fence to shake hands: "In America, we call this the boardinghouse reach." By late this month, when Nixon plans to wind up his current...
...intense because Texas stands a chance in the April 2 election of sending a Republican to the Senate. And if that happens, the extra G.O.P. vote would relieve the Democrats of their 49-47 edge, split the parties 48-48, throw the decisive vote to Republican Senate President Richard Nixon-and strip of his title Texas' own Lyndon Baines Johnson, Senate majority leader...
Harold Stassen, the G.O.P.'s own Peter Piper, has picked himself a peck of pickled political peppers while serving as a presidential assistant on disarmament. First, he plucked himself a hot one when he led the drive to dump Dick Nixon from the 1956 presidential ticket. And then, five weeks ago, he served up his opinion that Nixon was indeed a 1956 liability, and that the Republicans could have won control of Congress if Massachusetts' Christian Herter rather than Nixon had been the vice-presidential nominee. Fellow Republicans glowered, wondered how long, O Ike, before Harold is sent...
...Democratic Party must build its personalities into national figures if it is to beat Richard Nixon for the Presidency in 1960, Henry M. Jackson, Senator from Washington, declared yesterday...