Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sets a cruel pace. He has traveled to Washington, Manhattan, Hawaii, Chicago, Atlantic City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Des Moines, and, for seven lively weeks, to Europe. At every stopping place he has increased his reputation as a character, whether by calling Richard Nixon an s.o.b. or by calling a general a squirrel-head (TIME, June 4). He acted as Father of the Bride with gracious dignity, and the entire nation shared his pride and his sadness. He wrote his memoirs and delighted in being called a liar by Douglas MacArthur and Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace...
...when Harold Stassen telephoned to ask for an appointment with the President. The deep, dark, staff-level suspicion: Childe Harold might be looking for a chance to resign from his job as Disarmament Adviser and claim martyrdom in his lonely campaign to pit Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter against Dick Nixon for the Republican vice-presidential nomination (TIME, Aug. 6). Back went a call to Stassen: Just what did he have in mind? Replied Harold: he wanted the President's permission to take a month's leave to expand his pro-Herter activities. With a sigh of relief...
With regard to the question of how the English people look at America, Ross pointed out that almost every person would have a different answer. He said, however, that there seemed to be a general feeling that Eisenhower should retain the presidency, but that there was considerable concern over Nixon, whom Ross characterized as "a man of more vigor and ability than political judgment...
...Promised Land. If anything, Stassen succeeded only in solidifying Republican support behind Dick Nixon. But his action, crackled the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette, had come "in time to do the utmost political damage to the party which has tied the feed bag onto Mr. Stassen's big mouth...
...presidential nomination for himself. Their judgment as to his motives: having failed in his tries at the presidential nomination in 1948 and 1952, and despite his foreclosure this week. Stassen wants another shot in 1960. And to take over the Eisenhower wing of the party, he must first get Nixon out of the way. Clearly, the tireless Childe Harold was setting out on a new pilgrimage toward his promised land...