Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will the American people ever learn? la 1944 they elected a walking corpse President of the United States. Will they repeat that costly blunder...
...just barely getting off the ground, is an imaginative response to the world's desire for rapid economic progress. But the President's foreign policy cannot be separated from that of his Secretary of State, and here the past four years can be chalked up as little but bluster, blunder, and an inability to see that the future requires change. Dulles' well-known verbal blunders have done a great deal to harm American prestige, but they do not fully account for the precarious position of this country's foreign power. What is demanded, and what the Eisenhower Administration has failed...
...press conference, President Eisenhower quietly set straight what was probably the most reckless blunder of the Stevenson campaign. The U.S. had indeed made a loan to Argentina, but it was for $130 million, not $100 million, said he. And it was made not by his Administration but by Truman's. Later in the week Secretary of State Foster Dulles underscored another pertinent point: Perón thrived in office all through the Truman Administration, fell from power during the Eisenhower Administration-which has propped up the new government with a total of $160 million in loans...
...blunder on Perón typified the difference between the Stevenson of 1952, a man meticulously concerned with facts, and the Stevenson of 1956, a man furiously concerned with winning. Last week, particularly when he discussed his concept of a "New America," Stevenson showed flashes of his old eloquent self ("Leadership in a democracy can be no more than the capturing of a people's power to realize their own best ideals"). But most of the time, he seemed more content to let the sparks shower merrily and fall where they might...
Tall among them, in spite of a blunder that early in the week threatened to bring high-voltage bolts crashing down around him, was Adlai Stevenson. In a curbstone television interview, Stevenson nearly threw away months of patient missionary work among Southern Democrats by saying he believed that the party platform "should express unequivocal approval of the [Supreme] Court's decision." Next night the interview appeared on film, and the Southerners blazed. But before the boss could be undone by forthright words, Stevenson aides sold the South all over again on the premise that Adlai is indeed...