Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limits which I hope both sides would observe." Later Dulles phoned Nixon to explain that he had not meant to be critical, next day put out a confusing statement that Nixon was only replying to Democratic criticisms and "in those circumstances I fully concurred in the need for that answer...
...party's campaign. "I do subscribe to this theory: foreign policy ought to be kept out of partisan debate . . . I realize that when someone makes a charge another individual is going to reply. I deplore that. They have made the charges about me. I will not answer, do not expect to. So I believe in the long term America's best interests will be best served if we do not indulge in this kind of thing." The President added another above-the-battle point. A recent G.O.P. leaders' statement issued after a White House meeting held that...
...much sweetness and light about him"). Also Novelist Albert Camus, especially in his latest book, The Fall ("I think Camus is on a pilgrimage and he hasn't arrived"). Oddly, Theologian McCord also includes Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. If anyone criticizes such literary judgments, McCord has an answer: "I think the first thing the Lord requires of us is honesty. He requires you to be honest before he requires you to assent to something...
...said No, and the Secretary of State equivocated righteously. "Foreign policy ought to be kept out of partisan debate," declared Dwight Eisenhower last week. He said that he "deplored" the exchange of criticism and reply on official actions; that when he himself is accused he does not expect to answer; and that America's interests will be best served "if we do not indulge in this kind of thing." Richard Nixon called this "an unsound idea" ("one of the reasons the Republican party is in trouble today") and insisted on the opposite policy. John Foster Dulles took turns agreeing with...
...debate only state issues; Harriman calls this a new form of isolationism; so the candidates debate nothing. The one concrete issue that Rockefeller has raised is that of the so-called "economic drift" of the state under the Harriman administration. To this point Harriman has an apparently convincing answer: under Republican Dewey New York dropped from second to seventh in per-capita in come, but in the past three years the state has moved back up to third place...