Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With President Eisenhower away in Panama, Harold Stassen called a news conference and, in gentle tones, read a prepared statement. He had, said Harold, received the results of private polls that showed Nixon running last to Herter's first among Republican vice-presidential possibilities (one of the others listed in the polling was Harold Stassen). The polls indicated that Nixon's name on the ticket would cost Ike about 6% of the vote this fall, said Stassen. He stoutly maintained that he was acting only as a private citizen, not in his capacity as the President...
White House aide; later, 180 of the 202 G.O.P. Representatives pledged their support to Nixon. In Panama Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty snapped that Stassen could not have made his statement as "a member of the President's official family." Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall said flatly: "My own prediction is that the ticket will again be Eisenhower and Nixon...
Next morning Stassen and other top Republicans gathered at Washington's National Airport to welcome the President back from Panama. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and White House Aide Jerry Persons walked out of their way to avoid him. Massachusetts' Senator Lev Saltonstall bumped into Stassen, reacted as though he had come nose to nose with a spoiled cod. Thirty feet away, Dick Nixon seemed oblivious to Stassen's presence. Only at the very end of the airport interlude did Stassen walk over to Nixon and say, "Good morning." The two shook hands briefly, while news photographers clicked...
Started in 1951 during the Korean war, the job of building the base involved the greatest earth-moving project since the Panama Canal: 85 feet of solid earth and rock were hacked from the top of Mount Maritan, and millions of tons of coral rock were dredged from the nearby China...
Warmed by the easy companionship of Panama's unique meeting of Presidents-and in particular by their private, get-acquainted visits with President Eisenhower-the chief executives of South America made going home last week the occasion for an unheralded program of presidential gadding-about. Unforeseen delays threw the formal travel schedules into a state of confusion, but by week's end South America's Presidents knew each other as never before...