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I like your input, many thanks. My reasoning behind Johnson's mindset here is that he would not want to appear churlish by refusing to allow a VP. Plus, although unspoken, assume that LBJ is aware of who Nixon will pick-and does not regard her as a future threat. Plus, he is working on the...

Chief Justice Earl Warren administered the oath on the 20th May 1962 (after Congress had given its approval) to inaugurate Margaret Chase Smith as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Nixon was pleased. He was convinced that he had a VP who could not challenge him and no further...

Labour were in trouble. Since MacMillan's decision to attempt to join the EEC (which had failed), the Party's front bench were split on the issue. Many were also annoyed that Gaitskell and George Brown, as members of the Right of the Party, occupied its two most senior posts. Public rows were...

Nelson Rockefeller was delighted by the nomination to the Vice Presidency, but was privately disappointed not to have been asked himself. He understood Nixon's reasoning though, and was enthusiastic. It was a bold move. Nixon's choice was a long-standing Senator, with an experience that could...

Filled the gap, I've introduced a good bipartisan way to the amendment.

Nixon was indeed rather cunning. He believed that the South should be left alone for now. In what he described as "The Southern Strategy", he decided that the plan for now was let Democrats and Dixiecrats fight it out in the South in the hope that Republicans could come through the middle in...

From "Nixon-Master of the White House", by Robert Caro (1980) Nixon's advisors were taken aback by his response after the Cabot Lodge assassination. He was, he told them, determined to have a new Vice President in place. In a surprising move, he put out feelers to the Democratic Senate leader...

@ Dathi- I think I should have worded that more clearly. The deal allows in more Canadian goods in return for preferential rates on Canadian energy-hydroelectric being particularly notable here. The major net results here are going to be a) a rapid increase in the Canadian hydroelectric...

From Los Angeles Times, 11th December, 1961 Cabot Lodge Dead VP Shot; Assassin Arrested There was shock and revulsion across the nation yesterday when Vice President Henry Cabot Lodge Jnr. was shot dead whilst giving a speech at Dealey Plaza in Dallas (TX). Shortly after 3 o'clock, Mr. Cabot...

On 9th November, Nixon and Canadian PM John Diefenbaker were in Washington as Congress ratified the Canada Tariffs Act, which reduced imports on Canadian imports in return for increased oil imports at a preferential rate. Both sides would benefit. The deal also included a connection from...

Indonesia will hold back for now, but Portugal will eventually be abandoned.

October was a troublesome month for international relations. India was being belligerent over Goa; and Portugal was being equally aggressive back. Nixon was no friend of democratic and socialist India, and had recently begun talks with Salazar in much the same way that Eisenhower had engaged...

Haha, good point! I'll change that....