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...loss of national popularity, coupled with out-spoken campaign tactics by its Republican critics, will throw the balance of power to the Old Guard at the 1960 convention. Though this possibility seems remote at present, too close an identification with a waning political force such as Eisenhower could hurt Nixon??s presidential chances. On the other hand, a premature commitment to the Old Guard might cut off Nixon??s favored position in the executive, which, through assignment to foreign good-will and inspection missions, has won him valuable national publicity...
...Nixon??s dilemma is particularly acute in deciding what role to play in this fall’s campaign. Party functionaries admit the Republicans will be faced with a strong opposition offensive; politically the situation calls for a vigorous counter-attack. Signs of this were seen in the “kick-off” speeches by presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Senator Barry Goldwater last month which lambasted the Democrats in a tone not heard since...
...Senator Richard Nixon??besieged by corruption allegations—famously shifted attention with a televised reference to Checkers, a dog he had been given as a political gift. Nixon left the television studio downcast, but in the coming days, 250,000 Americans sent letters to the Republican National Committee endorsing Nixon, and defending Checkers...
...replied, “I am a biologist. My business is life.” According to Elijah Wald, his father felt it was his duty was to stop the war. His activism led to multiple arrests at protests, as well as making it onto Richard Nixon??s “enemy list...
...mail.The Harvard connections continue. Ned’s grandfather, Thomas S. Lamont ’21, was a member of the Harvard Corporation. Ned’s father, Edward M. Lamont, Sr. ’48, is an economist who helped administer the Marshall Plan and worked in Richard Nixon??s Department of Housing and Urban Development.Lamont told The Crimson that he remembers dinner table discussions between members of his family. “They’d have a good old fashioned discussion,” he said, adding that he had hoped this election would also...