Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks before the elections TIME correspondents talked to dozens of Republican leaders in states where Nixon had campaigned. Almost to a man they were grateful for his efforts, well aware that Nixon need not have lifted a finger in the 1958 campaign had he wanted to duck a part in almost certain defeat. Last week those same leaders were still grateful. But hardly a Republican leader anywhere could keep Rockefeller's name out of the Nixon conversation. Said Illinois Republican Claude Kent, himself a staunch Nixonite: "We think we have a strong new contender in this other fellow [Rockefeller...
...much about his biggest headache: civil rights. Already Illinois' liberal Democrat Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey had teamed up with Republican Liberals Jacob Javits of New York and Cliff Case of New Jersey to poll all senatorial candidates on a plan to attack Rule 22, the South's license to stop all civil-rights legislation by filibuster. Douglas & Co. could count 41 votes for abolition of Rule 22 as the first order of Senate business, figured they were well within sight of a thunderous victory that would curl the hair of aging Dixiecrats...
...other side of the aisle, Republican ranks, though depleted, may find in defeat a new cohesion that will let them exploit Democratic splits. Ailing Joe Martin of Massachusetts will probably hand more of the House minority leader's power over to quick-moving Ikeman Charlie Halleck of Indiana; the Senate's probable new Republican leader, Old Guardist-turned-Ikeman Everett Dirksen of Illinois, will doubtless be a much smoother operator than bumbling ex-Minority Leader Bill Knowland...
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...
...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...