Julie Nixon Eisenhower Quotes
I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.
She was commenting on the 2016 Presidential Campaign where large numbers of voters did not like each candidate.
Before Governor Mecham was impeached, Senator John McCain called for his resignation. After Mecham was impeached for misusing State funds and thwarting investigations of death threats, he commented upon McCain's qualifications for a place on the Republican national ticket:
China, after overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty was struggling among many factions for control of the government. Many of the potential leaders were corrupt.
He had been asked by some politicians if he would be interested in being an Iralian senator.
It was a 3-way race where the right wing of the Republican Party had stacked the deck so that Taft would be selected the nominee despite the greater popularity of TR who then decided to run as a 3rd party candidate. He beat the Republican nominee and incumbent President Taft soundly and the two of them together got many more votes than Wilson but Wilson had the most votes with only 42 percent. He got the loyal Democrat votes but lost the independents to Roosevelt who in turn lost the conservative Republicans to Taft. Wilson had the mathematics which made up for his personal weaknesses. What is very interesting about this quotation is that Wilson thought of himself as an intellectual as opposed to TR, but in reality Roosevelt was not only also an intellectual but the only President who was a world class scientists.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower is an American author who is the younger daughter of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States, the sister-in-law of Edward F. Cox, the maternal aunt of Christopher Nixon Cox and is the wife of David Eisenhower, grandson of President Eisenhower.
