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Silence & Whispers. What the resurgent Republicans badly needed was the voice of a leader to give the party cohesion and forward motion. Although his influence and prestige still cast a long shadow over the land, Dwight Eisenhower did not seem to relish the role. Dick Nixon, the titular leader of the party, promised to speak out this week in Los Angeles. But already his long silence had cost Nixon some support: cloakroom whispers had New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, dean of the Senate's Republicans and a longtime Nixon partisan, defecting to Nelson Rockefeller. In Albany, Rockefeller...
...call for "collective leadership" of the G.O.P. Then he had a 90-minute breakfast with Nixon, and after the usual grinning, handshaking pose, said that he had been "having a wonderful meeting with the Vice President." Nixon, he said in answer to a question, was of course "the titular head of the party," which seemed to leave things back at the beginning, or almost...
...first time, Western correspondents in Moscow were permitted to refer openly in their dispatches to the Russian-Chinese quarrel, were even allowed to quote "well-informed" sources on the line-up of forces within the Red summit meeting. When hollow-cheeked Liu Shao-chi, Red China's titular head of state, delivered a scathing four-hour denunciation of Khrushchev's policy, the varied reactions in his audience clearly revealed the true quality of the dispute between Peking and Moscow. Outwardly an ideological quarrel, it is in fact a fight for power between Russia, the established conservative, seeking...
...titular leader of the fraternity, Nicholas B. Soutter '63, expressed disappointment at the fate of his demonstration, but he supported the official intervention and maintained that "the Cambridge police are the bastion of American strength...
Nixon: "All he knows is hatchet politics. He couldn't be 'titular head' of anything...