Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the busy agenda that the Congress will face, one of the biggest items of debate will be disarmament policy. The normal forums for such discussions are the State Department, the White House, and the National Security Council. The big Texan with the big ideas, however, forcefully pulled the Stassen-Dulles feud into the Congressional repertoire. Calling for peace waged at the conference table, Johnson, who invited "all men of all nations" to its chairs, outbid the President. Eisen-hower simply held the door open to talks, but required credentials of good faith for those who want to pass...
...Triviality, even more sinister in its complexity, describes another absurdity of Organization. This law states that "the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum (of money) involved." It is, for example, easier to pass an appropriation for $10,000,000 than for $57.62. The conclusion is obvious: Think...
...Council proposal, along with a copy of the November 4 agenda, was sent to the presidents of all the House Committees...
Next week's agenda has been announced. The NATO conference will concern itself with Sputnik and missile secrets, with numbers of men and methods of military defense. There will be nothing said about France and Algeria, or Britain and Cyprus, or the U.S. and its China policy. There will be a conspiracy of silence against the urgent economic problems which face the free world--the trade barriers, the need for world markets, aid to neutral nations and underdeveloped countries. The politicians will labor next week under the old delusion that wars are won on battlefields alone...
...Agenda. Flying into the U.S. with his two sons and a group of other dignitaries, Mohammed packed a load of gifts for such individuals as President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles...