Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting short. At 10:30, during the meeting in the Cabinet room, an aide handed the President a note saying that Dulles had arrived and was waiting in the President's office. The President adjourned the meeting and walked back to his office with Vice President Richard Nixon, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining, and a squad of other experts...
...tell sugar-beet growers how to plant their crops ("in clusters of four"). The crowds in the market squares gave him a desultory welcome. But among some 2,500 Party Congress delegates in East Berlin he got duly booming cheers, and he chose to compare these with the reception "Nixon recently experienced in Latin America." For two hours Khrushchev spoke to his German minions, in the conqueror's native Russian tongue, leaving his remarks to be translated. More than half of his speech was devoted to a heavy attack on Tito, though he insisted plaintively at one point...
...brother Dwight, Johns Hopkins University President Milton Eisenhower flew south from Washington last week for a fact-finding and good-will swing through six nations of Central America. The trip, originally scheduled for June 15, was postponed lest Milton meet a backwash of the violence that greeted Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas...
...somber age of Nixon, Nikes, and Maidenform bras, we make very few demands on anyone with the courage to be funny. But even from within this abysmal temperance, we look at the latest issue of Monocle (a magazine of political satire) much like the young man watching his mother-in-law plunge over a cliff in his brand new Cadillac--with mixed emotions...
...post-Nixon" Latin American emphasis and your excellent Muñoz Marin cover story [June 23]: many Americans, enchanted by the cultures of Spain or France, ignore or even deride an almost identical culture to their south. To a large segment of Americans, Mexico and the remainder of Latin America is represented by dives or semiliterate braceros. This is like judging the U.S. by Coney Island or Arkansas hillbillies. Unless we make an effort to understand and appreciate the rich, proud and nonmaterialistic culture of our southern neighbors we shall have lost a major battle of the cold...