Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RICHMOND NEWS LEADER: IN this debacle there were many losers, not the candidates alone, but the G.O.P. as a whole, Vice President Nixon as an individual and (let us face the grim truth) the South as a region...
...cartoons against Mr. Nixon are shocking-not as political depictions, but by their below-the-belt viciousness. It seems Mr. Nixon is still being Hissed by an unforgiving hard core. H. C. CONWAY San Diego...
...Democrats, only rarely did they campaign as full-fledged liberals. Part of their success unquestionably came from the moderate congressional record they had written under Texans Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. During the campaign, when President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon flailed at the Democrats as radicals, the near-unanimous Democratic reply was "Who? Me?" Few if any farm-belt Democrats campaigned for a return to Henry Wallace's Milk for Hottentots days or for the Truman Administration's Brannan Plan. Few marched to victory as all-out defenders of labor faith; indeed the great majority argued...
Vice President Richard Nixon pushed aside the papers headlining G.O.P. defeat, squared himself for the long, rough run toward 1960. Nixon's political situation had changed overnight. On Nov. 4 he stood virtually unchallenged for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960. On Nov. 5 he could look over his shoulder and see a red-hot potential contender in the person of New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, who ran up a sensational 557,000-vote win in Democratic territory even as California Republicans-including a Nixon protege for attorney general-were getting shredded all across...
Rocky himself was making no promises either way. Said he: "I have no other interest in any other job except being Governor of this state." But the size and scope of his victory had made him a threat to Nixon whether he liked it or not. An Associated Press poll of Republican state chairmen last weekend showed 20 pointing to Nixon as a clear front runner, two (from New York and Massachusetts) claiming Rocky was already the leader-and ten who said it was a tossup between Nixon and Rockefeller...