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...Principles & Ideals." Through the evening, as the size of the victory rolled into a landslide and then into an ava lanche, President Eisenhower kept no chart as Franklin Roosevelt had done on election nights. He depended entirely on the television set and press reports brought in by Secretary Hagerty and son John. At 10 o'clock, as previously planned, he dressed and rode off to the Sheraton-Park Hotel, where the Republican National Committee had set up its victory headquarters. There, surrounded by members of his Cabinet and other close associates, preparing to make his victory appearance before...
...Chart & Report. In the candidate's cabin, not a moment was wasted. Wearing a plaid smoking jacket (to keep his coat unwrinkled for the day's appearances), Nixon received the daily "tip" by his staff on the situation at the next stop: population of the town (broken down by ethnic groups), its prides and its problems, its political complexion, the situation in the congressional races, the people who should be mentioned in his speech. Said one staff report as the plane droned over Texas: "San Antonio is a popular winter resort and a haven for many elderly people...
Always up to date was a chart that showed the whereabouts and activities of other key campaigners-President Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson and former President Truman (Nixon largely ignored the travels, of Estes Kefauver). From the chart, Nixon could be sure that he was not upstaging Ike in the next day's headlines, and also could know when and what he should be saying in countering Stevenson and Truman. Every day he received from Washington a report prepared by ten staff members of the White House and the Republican National Committee, summarizing the national political situation. Excerpt: "In his statement...
...leadership of the almost 13 million people of South America's third most populous country (after Brazil and Argentina). Preoccupied with the politics of staying in power, he failed to keep a sufficiently attentive eye on the economy. Now the figures add up to a mess (see chart...
...shortage, putting massive pressure on the nation's credit resources in the race to translate higher-than-ever paychecks and profits into higher-than-ever living standards and productive capacity. To fuel the boom, the nation has run $770 billion in debt, a 65% increase since 1946 (see chart). While public debt has dwindled from 65% of the total to 45% in ten years, loans to individuals (including small businesses and farmers) have rocketed from $60 billion to $191 billion...