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...came fully awake to the fact that its normal best in the cold war is no longer good enough. The U.S. satellite test vehicle, reaching for the sky and falling flat on its pad, was a symbol of the old standards: a hurry-up effort to answer moons with a moon, klaxons of witless pressagentry and, after the flop, yelps of anguish (cried Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's two satellites?"). Yet even if Vanguard had been successful in its first...
Said Vice President Richard Nixon to the budget-centered National Association of Manufacturers in Manhattan: "The lowest taxes, the highest profits, the best wages in history won't make any difference if we're not around to enjoy them. This means that substantial amounts will have to be added to our defense budget. We must spend whatever is necessary. And the strongest military establishment in the world will not save America's freedom if we fail to meet the threat which the Communists present in nonmilitary areas...
...Electrical Workers Union President James B. Carey: "If the delivery in Washington is as good as the delivery here today, it will be a real contribution to labor-management relations." On the whole, George Meany and his colleagues grimly had to agree that Mitchell's program was the best possible cure. Faced with the fact that labor has lost a lot of friends, he could see, too, that the temper of Congress was even hotter than Mitchell's. Rather than face possible mass surgery from a congressional butcher knife-perhaps even an outcry in Congress for a federal...
...Dwight Eisenhower, who always before made it his practice to steer clear of Senate internal affairs, is reminding G.O.P. Senators that Dirksen would serve their purposes better in the long run than such liberal Republicans as New York's Jacob Javits or New Jersey's Clifford Case. Best guess on who persuaded Ike to plead Dirksen's cause: Everett Dirksen...
...abandonment of the serviceman, the procedure is a recognition that the U.S. has far more to offer the free world than strength of arms. In its respect for local law the U.S. underscores its faith in law itself, and thus by example challenges local law to be its responsible best. At its responsible best, a free world rule of law can do more to cinch for all time the high ambitions of U.S. foreign policy than even arms and soldiers...