Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Administration had long since made it clear that its major legislative ambition for 1962 would be to achieve a new program on trade and tariffs, designed to give U.S. industry freer access to the burgeoning six-nation European Common Market. In his State of the Union message, the President said he would request a "bold new instrument" to reshape U.S. trade policy and meet the demands of a changing international economy. Last week he did just that, sending up to Capitol Hill a fat, 52-page proposed Trade Expansion Act of 1962 designed "to promote the general welfare, foreign...
Worrying Accent. The bill, said the President, would "benefit substantially every state of the union, every segment of the American economy." What made it necessary was that existing U.S. trade laws fail to "assure ready access for ourselves ... to a market nearly as large as our own"; in the five years of its existence, the Common Market has created a new economic community in many ways as vast and promising as the U.S. itself. Further, the plan would stimulate economic growth throughout the free world, and it would shore up the U.S. international financial position, weakened by years of defense...
...perhaps too confident in his belief that he understands the complicated Nehru, but on the whole he handles him well. Last August, after Nehru made the damaging assertion in the Indian Parliament that he could see no legal basis for Western access to Berlin, Galbraith braced Nehru with documentation. The Prime Minister admitted his error, but said that he would wait to revise his estimate until after the weekend-which would have allowed the error to sink in. At that point, Galbraith suggested a tactfully worded statement modifying Nehru's Berlin judgment. The Prime Minister smiled and, with only...
...thought so, too, and his proud reading of one of his poems at the inaugural set a tone of expectation. After a few weeks in the Presidency, Kennedy told a friend: "This is a damned good job." He was fascinated by the perquisites of his office and his sudden access to the deepest secrets of government. He explored the White House, poked his head into offices, asked secretaries how they were getting along. He propped up pictures of his wife and children in office-wall niches, while Jackie rummaged through the cellar and attic, charmed with the treasures she found...
...Allied forces, 2) access to Berlin, and 3) a free and viable city as a part of West Germany...