Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gates, who has been Deputy Defense Secretary for six months, moved into his new job last week on the run. An hour after taking over, he reversed McElroy's longstanding policy discouraging press conferences by the Air Force, Army and Navy Secretaries. Ahead of him lie the same problems...
If the U.S. agreed to total disarmament, the report went on, Communists could gain world supremacy through easy-to-conceal production of relatively few weapons. But the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could profitably agree on strategic forces "limited to retaliatory systems capable of surviving a first strike, though insufficient for...
But even a sound disarmament treaty and a U.S. retaliatory force able to deliver the second strike would offer no permanent security in an age of weapons revolution. The only safety lies in getting ahead and staying ahead of the Russians.
"Not Our Business." "I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper political or governmental activity of function or responsibility," said Eisenhower. "This thing has, for very great denominations, a religious meaning ... I have no quarrel with them, as a matter of fact this being largely...
"A Primary Need." But the President's air of finality just fanned the sparks. Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, who had been the first to toss the birth-control issue to leading Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, tossed it back at the...