September 25

"You don't win campaigns with a diet of dish water and milk toast."

Richard Nixon, 37th President, 1969-1974- It seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. Vice-Presidents and Vice-Presidential candidates seem to be the ones to stir up controversy while the Presidents(here Eisenhower)stay above the fray. From a talk at a Republican campaign fundraiser September 30, 1958 in Indianapolis. Nixon Blasts Cheap Cracks Made by Truman INDIANAPOLIS Vice-President Richard M Nixon told Hoosier Republicans last night to came out slugging in the Congressional campaign by warning voters election of Democrats will result in higher taxes. Nixon said he disagreed with some Republican friends who suggested he pass up the congressional campaign to avoid being associated with a losing cause. "I can think of nothing more contemptible than running from a fight when things are tough.", the vice president told an Indiana Republican fundraising rally. "We will lose", Nixon said, "if we continue to backpedal and to allow ourselves to be a punching bag for the cheap cracks of Harry Truman and his like. We aren't going to win by giving the voters a diet of dish water and milk toast." He said, "If Democrats strengthen their hold on Congress this year it will be through election of radical Democrats who...drunk with visions of votes and pink but dead elephants means you are voting to raise your taxes, cheapen your money...and to say no the new investment and enterprise which means more and more progress for the American people. Under the Truman administration prices went up 38 per cent. The Truman prosperity, he said, was a war prosperity which occurred only in war years while the Eisenhower prosperity is a peace prosperity." From The El Paso Herald Post