Word: blackmailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Paar said that it was the honorable thing for the U.S. to do. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater said that it was blackmail. Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt saw it as an opportunity for U.S. humanitarianism to assert itself. Columnist Robert Ruark denounced it as an obscene, criminal proposition. Wherever the average American turned last week-to his television set, his newspaper, his favorite bartender or to his wife-he could get an argument. The subject of controversy: Fidel Castro's idea of accepting U.S. tractors in exchange for prisoners taken in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion...
...U.P.I. editors, Goldwater made a slashing, campaign-style attack on President Kennedy's "response to blackmail demands" in the Cuban tractor deal. Goldwater denounced U.S. Information Agency Director Edward R. Murrow (who has defended the deal) as a "Government-paid huckster," declared that "if official policy is so shaky that the USIA has to be utilized to sell it to our own people, then that policy should be abandoned in favor of one that the American people can support." Labeling John Kennedy's cold war policy as "almost calculated confusion," Goldwater called for the President to lay down...
Castro's offer to trade 1,000 prisoners for 500 bulldozers is pure public blackmail. Yet I sense no wave of righteous indignation in the press or on the air . . . only foul submission. Mrs. Roosevelt and the Government of the U.S. make me sick...
...nation so soft that we will resort to the payment of blackmail to a psychopathic, power-hungry dictator to avoid our responsibilities? There is no doubt of our obligation to the members of the unsuccessful invasion force, since they were apparently ill advised by our intelligence groups; but far more satisfactory methods of obtaining their freedom are close at hand...
...miles away, where Krim's image was projected on a huge screen in the main auditorium. First subject on Krim's mind was De Gaulle's unilateral declaration of a cease-fire in Algeria. Instead of welcoming an end to the fighting, Krim denounced it as "blackmail," called it "premature from a military, psychological and political point of view...