Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come, Topic A of U.S. politics was the future of Richard Nixon. "Mr. President," a reporter put the first question at Eisenhower's press conference, "there have been some published reports that some of your advisers are urging you to dump Vice President Nixon from the Republican ticket this year, and that, secondly, you yourself have suggested to Mr. Nixon that he consider standing aside this time and, perhaps, take a Cabinet post. Can you tell us whether there is anything to those reports...
...what I would do in a hypothetical question involving about five ifs. And I don't think you should expect me to. I do say this: I have no criticism of Vice President Nixon to make, either as a man, associate, or as my running mate on the ticket...
...Many Washington reporters interpreted the President's wording "chart out his own course" to mean that the President was charting out a strategy to drop Nixon from the ticket. Actually, Eisenhower neither reiterated nor withdrew from his stated position that he will endorse nobody for Vice President until he becomes the nominee...
CONTROVERSY over whether President Eisenhower's health is a campaign issue strikes us as silly. Of course it is an issue. Ike made it an issue, himself, candidly and honestly. Pursuing the "health issue," let us consider the effect upon the GOP ticket if the enemies of Richard Nixon succeed in shoving him aside for someone more palatable to them. That would be taken as an admission that the party really does not expect President Eisenhower to fill out a second term, and therefore is concentrating on the vice-presidency...
...Yourself. In Irvington, N.J., arrested for driving with old license plates, George Ludovici was held on additional charges when police learned that he had stolen the car, was AWOL from the Army, had tried to pay for the traffic ticket with a homemade $10 bill...