Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quietly, almost casually, in his press conference last week, the President gave his own precedent-breaking answer: he has made his own arrangements for Vice President Richard Nixon to take over in the event of his disability...
Troublesome Point. In fact, although he declined to answer the question directly at his news conference, the President had written a letter of instructions to Nixon. The details of the arrangement remained secret at week's end, but its gen eral line could be traced by past and present Administration attitudes...
...President was already on record with a plain answer that was a forthright choice of moral right over political expediency. Asked about Benson's prospects at his press conference, Ike said: "He is honest in his great effort to find proper, reasonable, sensible programs. When we find a man of this dedication, this kind of courage, this kind of intellectual and personal honesty, we should say to ourselves, 'We just don't believe that America has come to the point where it wants to dispense with the services of that kind of a person...
Three-Legged Horse. Sukarno came back to Djakarta full of wonder. "I've seen the answer in China," he told inti mates. "Now we must do something. Ev ery country in the world seems to make progress but Indonesia." His new political idea: "guided democracy." It was based, he said, on the ancient village idea of gotong-royong, mutual help, a sort of village meeting where all the elders discuss and discuss a proposition until they are in unanimous agreement. There was no vote, because votes produce majorities and minorities, and such division of the people leads to unhappiness...
...party to defeat in the 1951 and 1955 elections. Then it was Nye Bevan who led the divisive revolt against German rearmament. Day after last week's debate, the Labor Executive Committee, including "Shadow Foreign Minister" Nye Bevan, summoned leaders of the Victory-for-Socialism group to answer for their "activities...