Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state dining room for coffee, sweet rolls and coffee cake. Then, legally reassured of his right to his job, the President buckled down to a hard day's work putting the finishing touches to the second inaugural address that he delivered next day from the steps of the Capitol...
...look upon this shaken earth and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails." Thus Dwight David Eisenhower keyed both his second inaugural address and his second Administration this week as he spoke out from the Capitol steps to the tens of thousands before him and into the TV screens of millions. Moments before, President Eisenhower had raised his hand before Chief Justice Earl Warren to take his public oath of office beneath clear blue skies that had displaced an early grey overcast, his breath making tracks...
...Prioleau Richards, 62, as a $20,000-a-year special assistant, gave him the chairmanship of a special U.S. mission to explain Eisenhower foreign policy to Middle Eastern nations. South Carolinian Richards, who retired from Congress last week after 23 years in the House, has a formidable reputation on Capitol Hill, at the White House and abroad: last year he led a successful fight to trim $1 billion from the foreign aid bill, repeatedly called on the Administration to produce a long-range foreign aid policy that "made more sense." Now his job is to help it make sense...
...message did make one point vividly clear: the domestic problem that bothers the President most is inflation, and in the fight against it he appealed beyond Capitol Hill to the nation. "Government's efforts," he said, "must be paralleled by the attitudes and actions of individual citizens." Business leaders must "studiously avoid those price rises that are possible only because of vital or unusual needs of the whole nation," and labor's wage increases "must be reasonably related to improvements in productivity...
...Neighborly Distance. Knowland's reasoning on the big decision was typically direct: he wants to be near his father, Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland, now 83, to take over the family burdens if necessary. Since California's State Capitol in Sacramento is only a neighborly 90 miles from Oakland, Knowland by no means rules out the possibility that in two years he may decide to joust with Goodie Knight-an endeavor in which he would have the ardent support of Knight-blind California Republicans, currently including the powerful Los Angeles Times. Then, as governor of the second...