Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happened in Texas is only one detail of the unsung political phenomenon of 1956: the widespread realization that Richard Milhous Nixon is a prime national asset to the Republican Party, not only because of his political skill but also because of his genuine appeal to the U.S. electorate. By Nov. 6 the young (43) Vice President will have traveled 42,000 miles by airplane, train and car, will have made more than 150 campaign speeches in 36 states.* He has been a field strategist as well as a campaigner, firing back his analysis of what other G.O.P. campaigners...
...verdict has been echoed in state after state. California Republicans, troubled by Democratic organization strength, count Nixon's speech at Whittier (his home town) as the send-off of a campaign that seems headed toward victory; Michigan's G.O.P. leaders consider Nixon's appearance at Grand Rapids the turning point of their campaign; Pennsylvania's bickering, despondent Republican chiefs, still in deep trouble, were astonished and encouraged by the reception that Democratic Philadelphia gave the Republican Vice President. When Nixon finished a speech at a Republican rally at the Maryland State Fair Grounds, G.O.P. State Chairman...
...Without Horns. In view of the talent and tenacity that Dick Nixon has shown in ten years of dramatically successful political life, it was not surprising that he should be an effective campaigner in 1956. What surprised many political observers was his ability to become a shining asset-and not a liability-to the Republican cause. The victim of a concentrated assault unparalleled in recent U.S. political history, he first had to erase the black and distorted picture his foes had painted unceasingly for nearly eight years. One of his aides summed up the task: "We had to show...
...Nixon been the weak, unprincipled character that his more choleric enemies make him out to be, he might well have given up and accepted the advice of some of his friends to lie low. But, while he is a politician to his fingertips, Nixon is a man of consistent principle, whose values are as sound and fundamental as any in U.S. politics today. The son of a devout Quaker mother and a spirited Scots-Irish father who was a streetcar conductor and then a grocery-store operator, he grew up in the Depression and learned to take his problems head...
...Congressman, Nixon went at his job with the same intensity, industry and ambition that he had shown before and has shown since. He pushed the congressional investigation of Alger Hiss to the conclusion that eventually sent Hiss to prison; then, knowing the perils of subversion as did few others, he made pointed and effective use of the subversion issue in his campaigns. His intensity in the use of that issue inspired many of the bitter attacks that have been made on him. Stumping the country in 1952 and 1954, he intensified the bitterness by hitting hard, by trading blow...