Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter. Hagerty, who liked Nixon and thought he was the strongest candidate for Vice President, consulted the President, issued a statement pointedly reading Stassen out of the official Eisenhower family in his fight against Nixon. Later, when Nixon announced that he wanted a second term, Hagerty again went to Ike, came out to describe him as "enthusiastic" about Nixon's decision. When Stassen's dump-Nixon campaign fell completely flat, he publicly blamed Press Secretary Jim Hagerty for knifing him. "You're goddam right I was shooting him down," says Jim Hagerty...
Bending a Rule. The exertions of the winning 1956 campaign, piled on top of the President's two illnesses, dampened the Administration's drive in the second term-and made Jim Hagerty's job that much harder. Although the slowdown was yearlong, it got talked about most during the President's frequent vacations and long Gettysburg weekends. Hagerty struggled valiantly and, to a point, successfully in stressing work over play. He took with him on trips briefcases full of executive orders, appointments, etc., and parceled them out daily to make news under the Augusta or Gettysburg...
...Kansas' first Democratic governor in 20 years, George Docking has been winning most of his contracts from Kansas Republicans since he took office last year. Last week he dealt put a fresh hand that may well keep him in the governor's chair for another term. The slam bid in this case: a budget so carefully conceived and publicized that the Republicans might as well be against motherhood as oppose...
...remainder. Egypt completely controls the Jebel Auliya Dam 450 miles inside Sudanese territory, keeps careful watch on the Nile's flow at Malakal and Juba. But the Sudanese, increasingly annoyed at Egypt's interference, may decide to go ahead at Roseires anyway. And they hold one long-term trump card: refusal to let Egypt undertake the proposed Aswan High Dam unless the Sudan gets more Nile water upstream...
DEBT STRETCH-OUT will be attempted again by Treasury. It plans to offer long-term bonds as part of next month's $10.8 billion refinancing, believes that money has eased enough so that interest rate will be less than the 4% it paid on last September's twelve-year issue...