Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moment of Quiet. The renominations of President Dwight Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon were unanimous. The President was soon to note the historic disparities of the Republican Party in telling how it gathered in "Free-Soilers, Independent Democrats, conscience Whigs, Barnburners, Soft Hunkers, teetotalers, vegetarians and transcendentalists." But in 1956, Republicans were united in knowing whom and what they wanted. Dwight Eisenhower could have brought on a "wide open" presidential nomination only by his own irrevocable withdrawal. And for months Ike had tried to avoid the appearance of dictation by withholding his all-out endorsement of Nixon. The fact...
...early Wednesday morning, ready for anything. And the first problem was unscheduled: from Vice President Nixon came an early-morning call reporting his father seriously ill in La Habra. Said...
...Republicans from stem to stern. He did not propose, he said, to make "political capital out of the President's illness." But he attacked Eisenhower as a weak President "cynically coveted [by the Republicans] as a candidate but ignored as a leader." In an oblique thrust at Nixon, he said that if he and Kefauver are elected "and it is God's will that I do not serve my full four years, the people will have a new President they can trust...
...Nixon: "The vice hatchetman" of the Republican Party (Clement); "the chief function of the Vice President should not be that of a political sharpshooter for his party. It should not be that of providing the smear under the protection of the President's smile" (Candidate Estes Ke-fauver); "the White House pet midget, Moby Dick Nixon and his whale † of a pup, Checkers" (Kerr...
...composer himself is brandishing the baton. At one stylistic extreme is his Septet, which makes use of a method of composition similar to that used by his late rival. Arnold (Twelve-Tone) Schoenberg. At the other extreme are Stravinsky's early songs, orchestrated recently, which, in Marni Nixon's bell-clear soprano, have a childlike charm...