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...White House staff bristled warily when Harold Stassen telephoned to ask for an appointment with the President. The deep, dark, staff-level suspicion: Childe Harold might be looking for a chance to resign from his job as Disarmament Adviser and claim martyrdom in his lonely campaign to pit Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter against Dick Nixon for the Republican vice-presidential nomination (TIME, Aug. 6). Back went a call to Stassen: Just what did he have in mind? Replied Harold: he wanted the President's permission to take a month's leave to expand his pro-Herter activities. With...
...Dwight Eisenhower, Stassen's challenge to Nixon was apparently less disturbing than to his Janizariat. At his press conference last week, when the first question shot at him raised the Stassen issue, Ike was unruffled and ready with his thinking about the affair. His central point: the second man on the ticket, like the presidential candidate himself, must be chosen by the delegates at open convention and not by Eisenhower fiat. Until then, everyone has the right to express his preferences as he chooses...
...Wise Act." Accordingly, said the President, when Stassen first informed him of "what he expected to do ... I assured him that that was his right as far as I was concerned"-but, if he planned to express his own preference, he must do it as an individual and not as a member of the official family. Later, when "he came to me ... to ask for a leave, which I personally thought was a wise act on his part ... I promptly approved...
...Dick Nixon, Ike had warm words of praise and defense. The Vice President, he said, "has made a splendid record . . . these past four years." Does Nixon damage U.S. relations overseas, as Secretary of Peace Stassen had implied? Said Ike: "As you know, I have sent the Vice President on innumerable trips, and from every country ... I have received only the most glowing reports of his acceptability." In sum: "There should be no doubt about my satisfaction with him as a running mate...
...Harold Stassen crawled out on such a limb? Most Republicans took him at his word when he said he was not attempting to win the vice-presidential nomination for himself. Their judgment as to his motives: having failed in his tries at the presidential nomination in 1948 and 1952, and despite his foreclosure this week. Stassen wants another shot in 1960. And to take over the Eisenhower wing of the party, he must first get Nixon out of the way. Clearly, the tireless Childe Harold was setting out on a new pilgrimage toward his promised land...