Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Higher Faculty. In University Park, Pa., Penn State's Liberal Arts Newsletter reported a talk given by Dean Euwema, said the dean had asserted that "problems brought to him are more easily solved if they are accompanied by a solution...
What did unfold as Stassen headed back to Pennsylvania was fury among the Administration's Nixon loyalists. Actually, said a presidential aide, the long Ike-Harold talk had been about such political generalities as how to develop youthful new candidates. Snapped Labor Secretary Jim Mitchell, New Jersey liberal and possible Nixon 1960 running mate: "It is my conviction that Richard M. Nixon ought to be and will be the next President of the U.S." Said Attorney General Bill Rogers: "Did Stassen ask for time to second the Vice President's nomination?"-which was the way Harold scrambled...
...Palm Springs. Brown, dressed in swimming trunks and a flowered sports shirt, sat basking in the desert sun and in a delightful dilemma: whether to hew sternly to a campaign pledge to serve his full four-year term as Governor or to sound like an oracle when people talk about him for the Democratic national ticket in 1960. He chose the oracular: "I believe in a certain philosophy of government-of a government which serves all the people-and I think that as Governor of California I'll have a chance to work for that kind of government...
...desk rang constantly. One call came from a newly elected Western Senator thanking Johnson for campaign help. "Thank you. Senator," replied Johnson, "you're very kind. I'd like very much for you to come down here, come down to the ranch. We'll talk about what committee assignments would be best for you and anything else you want to bring up. Bring your wife...
Hanging up, Johnson turned to a visitor. How did he see Democratic presidential prospects shaping up? "We've got a lot of good men," said Lyndon Johnson. "I know only one thing: it's not going to be me." He was even able to talk paternalistically about other Democratic presidential possibilities in the Senate. "You know," he confided, "I feel sort of like a father to these boys. A father loves his sons, though one son may drink a little too much, another may neck with the girls a little too much. A good father uses a gentle...