Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congressional resolution of 1955 empowered the President to use U.S. forces in the Formosa area if the President-not the Congress-decided that Formosa was threatened. "I welcome the opinions and counsel of others. But in the last analysis such opinions cannot legally replace...
...Congress. "If you vote for a Democrat, you are voting to raise your taxes, cheapen your money, and stifle the new investment and enterprise, which mean more jobs and more progress for the American people...
...Doing" Something. In fact, during 1958 the President has exercised strong leadership of rare quality. He fought hard, long and successfully to push the three essentials of his program-defense reorganization, foreign aid, and reciprocal trade-through a reluctant Congress. He stood staunchly behind the attempts of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to bring sanity into the farm-subsidy program when many a Republican Congressman was yelping for Benson's scalp. After the revolution in Iraq last July, it took President Eisenhower only twelve hours to have U.S. Marines landing in Lebanon -and not even from Democratic liberals...
Telling 'Em. More than any President in decades, President Eisenhower has proved his administrative abilities in the gigantic task of pulling together and streamlining the fantastic complexities of U.S. Government, has proved his constitutional sensibilities by refusing to interfere with the rights and duties of Congress. Yet his effort to be "President of all the people," his refusal to stoop to political partisanship, to indulge in personal attacks, to cry out in alarm, to dramatize himself as the nation's savior, has partly been to blame for doubts about his "leadership." Working mostly within the confines...
...Communist record in Kerala has been "nothing amazingly different from that of the Congress Party governments in India's other states," Rudolph noted...