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...only improvement that can be made to an Ike-Nixon ticket would be a Nixon-Ike ticket, with a guarantee that Mr. Stassen is on a permanent leave of absence. Stassen has only one argument, which is: Nixon is a real Republican and he has made Democrats angry. This year the liberal voters do not like Nixon; why should they? If they did, they would not be liberal. I am not using liberal in its old sense, but rather in the modern sense, which has come to mean a pink...
Could it be that Richard M. Nixon is just too whole-souled, forthright and outspoken a Republican to suit all these internationalists, whether Republican, Democratic or Communist? In all the furor whipped up by the egregious Stassen, I have heard nothing worse charged against...
...Stassen may not hope to really achieve much except give Mr. Nixon a few uneasy moments and perhaps the Republican Party a bit of trouble. Everybody knows that Stassen is interested only in one man in the universe and that fellow is Harold Stassen himself. No doubt he had his eye on the very job that Nixon landed...
...Young." Yet there was remarkably warm praise for Stassen too, considering the circumstances. In a most difficult job, Ike said, he has worked "earnestly, rigorously ... to do things that very few people would have had the patience, the intelligence, and really the courage to do. One of the reasons that this whole episode sort of disturbed the even tenor of my ways was that I thought: 'Well, now. Here is a month that he won't be around...
...Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, two entire floors are being transformed into TV studios; cameras are being moved in on floors where delegates will sleep, play and caucus. At San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, a special TV crew will lie in continuous wait for Harold Stassen. ¶ The networks have also marshaled a crew of caterers, cooks, maids, helicopter pilots, chauffeurs for VIPs, commercial plane pilots and swimming-pool attendants (for NBC's plastic pool built especially to revive numbed delegates and newsmen). Betty Furness gets a whole new kitchen this year from Westinghouse (which...