Word: republicans
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...position. But I will say this also-that for us who have the responsibility of carrying the weight of this campaign, to stand by and to allow our policies to be attacked with impunity by our opponents without reply would lead to inevitable defeat . . . One of the reasons the Republican Party is in trouble today is because, over the past two years particularly, we have allowed people to criticize our policies and we have not stood up and answered effectively. That is a mistake. I don't intend to make that mistake in this campaign...
Thursday. There was consternation at the White House that spread through official Washington. Said one Administration hand: "Dick is so tired he must be punch-drunk." Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty got Nixon on the phone, agreed with Nixon that a statement of clarification ought to be put out. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn dropped by at the White House to see the President. Then the President sent Nixon a wire noting that 1) although basic foreign policies ought to be bipartisan, 2) it was perfectly O.K. to reply to the Democrats on foreign policy's "operation." Said...
...President, for reasons unexplained, had billed this part of his tour "nonpolitical." He neither replied to Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy's needling of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson (from the same platform just an hour before), nor appealed for votes for Republican Congressmen, nor even said a ringing word on behalf of Iowa's G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate William G. Murray, Iowa State University agriculture-economics professor, who stands an outside chance against lackluster Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless. Instead, Ike threw in a statement from hastily jotted notes on foreign policy: "You cannot bargain or negotiate in a world...
...criticism and reply on official actions; that when he himself is accused he does not expect to answer; and that America's interests will be best served "if we do not indulge in this kind of thing." Richard Nixon called this "an unsound idea" ("one of the reasons the Republican party is in trouble today") and insisted on the opposite policy. John Foster Dulles took turns agreeing with both and then issued a "clarification" showing that there hadn't been any real disagreement all along...
Charles Gibbons, Republican candidate for Governor, expressed party feeling as he attacked the Democrats for the unbalanced budget enacted in the latest Massachusetts legislative session...