Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger sometimes makes strange bedfellows, and for a while it looked as if Pakistan and India might patch up their differences in a defense agreement. Communist China's machinations in Tibet have had widespread effects, from the conciliatory talks in Karachi and New Delhi to proposals by Vice-President Nixon and Senator Kennedy that the U.S. boost India's rate of economic growth to that of China...
...last week the President drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital to attend the swearing-in of Foster Dulles as a new $20,000-a-year special consultant to the President with full Cabinet rank. Because Dulles tires easily, the small group at the ceremony-Ike, Dulles, Nixon, Herter, Janet Dulles and a few others-sat down while the President read to Dulles this citation: "Your willingness to continue to contribute your abundant talents and unique experience to the service of the U.S. and the free world is but one more example of your magnificent spirit and devotion to the nation...
Vice President Nixon's strong proposal that the U.S. lead in extending the rule of law to relations among nations (TIME, April 20) touched off ferment and comment in the major capitals of the free world. Last week a group of 26 Senators and Representatives-mostly liberal Democrats who have little else in common with Nixon-introduced concurrent resolutions in the House and Senate embodying their own proposals on how the rule of law might be achieved...
...Where Nixon had urged a strengthening of the International Court of Justice, the Senate-House group called on the President to study strengthening and revising the U.N. Charter "to promote a just and lasting peace through the development of enforceable world law." Leader of the Senate group: Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark; House spokesman: Oregon Democrat Charles O. Porter...
Ohio Republican Frank Bow waded into House debate over Porter's resolution to ask whether "perhaps we are beginning to find our way into the One World Federation." He was all for Nixon's rule of law proposal, said Bow, so long as it protects U.S. sovereignty. Replied Porter: "I think we could afford to make some concessions for world peace...