Word: stassenism
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...Hall. After Hall, in rapid order, came California's Senator Bill Knowland, Convention Chairman Joe Martin, Platform Committee Chairman Prescott Bush and a string of others, including Detroit's Mayor Albert Cobo, who is running for governor of Michigan. Dick Nixon's Republican critic, haggard Harold Stassen, appeared on the sixth floor, conferred for an hour and a half with Presidential Staff Chief Sherman Adams before seeing Ike for ten minutes. The immediate aftermath of Stassen's visit: the first live TV presidential press conference in U.S. history...
...pantry into the Italian Room of the St. Francis, Washington newsmen who had been away covering the conventions were astonished by the change that two weeks had made in his looks and outlook. He seemed muscular, his normally high color had returned, his eyes had brightened. Harold Stassen, said the President, had become "absolutely convinced that the majority of the delegates want Nixon," and had therefore asked to "second the nomination of the Vice President...
When I saw−or rather, smelled−TIME'S Aug. 6 attack on Harold Stassen, I thought I had accidentally picked up a copy of Confidential...
...childish to refer to Mr. Stassen as "Childe Harold" as it is to call the Vice President "Tricky Dicky." Shame...
...others in the President's Cabinet and aides: "Bull Dog Charlie Wilson and his dog act−energetic bird dogs, howling kennel dogs"; "grinning Jim Hagerty and his most fascinating medicine puppet show"; "NoseDive Benson, the flexible man"; "Give-a-Million McKay, the give-away king"; "hapless Harold Stassen, the dying young man on the flying trapeze"; "the little strongman, Sherman Adams, the one Republican who won't run for Vice President. He declines to stop being President...