Word: seaton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intended "to talk with him at the earliest time we can reach each other by telephone." But some of Ike's strategists, still in high panic, insisted that Nixon should be brought into Ike's presence for a personal accounting. Nebraska's Senator Fred Seaton, a close friend of both Eisenhower and Nixon, dropped off the Ike train at Auburn, Neb. to put through a telephone call to Nixon to ask what Nixon proposed to do. Should he break his campaign tour in the West and come to Ike with an explanation...
Nixon, talking from his train at Chico, Calif., objected strongly to any such pilgrimage of humiliation. He had a counterproposal: he would dictate a statement and Ike could issue it for him. Seaton flew back to join the Eisenhower staff in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel. After an hour's conference, Ike's advisers decided that Ike should preface his forthcoming evening speech-on corruption in government-with Dick Nixon's formal statement...
...enemy camp, the activity was almost as furious. Eisenhower clubs had been organized in all but half a dozen of South Dakota's 68 counties, and a first-string squad was coming in to speak for Ike. Among them were Senators Jim Duff of Pennsylvania and Fred Seaton of Nebraska, Governors Dan Thornton of Colorado, Val Peterson of Nebraska and Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Representatives Walter Judd of Minnesota and Clifford Hope of Kansas. The Ike big guns would fire their heaviest volleys after Taft left the state this week...
...screenplay, by Director George Seaton and George Oppenheimer, has slicked up and sentimentalized the rather owlish, rough-hewn original story to make a folksy, affectionate film. As the immigrant who aspires to become a good American, horsefaced José Ferrer does his best job of movie acting to date. Eugenie...
...writer thereof was 28-year-old Managing Editor John S. Smith, Republican. Smith, whose daily editorials are rarely seen by Owner Seaton until they appear in print, had no intention of pulling a fast one on his boss. Said he: "It was my way of shocking the public into a little sound thinking . . . Republican papers should give the party a shock once in a while to keep them on their toes." But one shock was all Editor Seaton expected to get. After "a little talk" with Smith, Seaton was certain that there would be no more anti-Republican editorials...