Word: strout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pundits who had been hailing the rising presidential prospects of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller suddenly saw Vice President Nixon's future with new clarity. Wrote the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout: "It is hard to imagine a better springboard for a presidential candidacy...
...President vigorously denied that the U.S. was "shooting from the hip" in enunciating its disarmament policy. But he gave the impression, as the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout pointed out, of "a conscientious man, eager to do what is in humanity's highest interest, reaffirming his pledge to go ahead with a cessation of atomic tests, but at the same time weighing the possible loss to mankind of losing the peaceful knowledge which such tests might bring." It was an impression of confusion, too, but it left no confusion about Ike's basic...
...Wrote Columnist T.R.B. (the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout) in the rabidly anti-Nixon New Republic: "On the Nixon caravan everything goes right, on the Kefauver Special everything goes wrong . . . With genuine perplexity Republican columnists ask, 'Why is it people dislike Richard Nixon?' Honestly we don't know. We puzzle about it. Maybe it is because he flashes his smile off and on so like an electric light. (Kefauver rarely smiles or laughs or anything; occasionally there is a wide, quarter-moon grin...
Their gripes reached print on Friday last week when Richard L. Strout wrote a satirical piece in the Christian Science Monitor entitled "Boss: Anybody Seen That Adlai?" Stevenson, Strout wrote, "is an agreeable fellow to have around, because he makes entertaining comments. But he isn't around very much so far as newspapermen go." He maintained that little things have been going very wrong in Stevenson's campaign which more efficient organization could easily eliminate. And the next day a more serious column appeared in the New York Herald Tribune dispelling the initial August optimism that surrounded the announcement...
...wire service men were most unhappy," Strout wrote. "They are not supposed to let a candidate out of sight. And we had a return Union man on board, but no place for columnists and assorted journalists to throw off copy...