Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent to Congress a bill of particulars on how he proposes to trade atomic military science with Britain under the relaxed secrecy act just passed by Congress. "Artificial barriers to sharing," he wrote, are "wasteful in the extreme...
...Sometimes I just can't understand Congress," barked Dwight Eisenhower, smashing his fist against the table and glaring at the Republican congressional leaders who had come to the White House for their weekly conference. "I can't understand the House adding a couple of hundred millions I didn't want for defense spending, appropriating millions of lard for rivers and harbors-and then cutting the devil out of foreign...
...Asked Congress to approve an "agreement for cooperation" between the U.S. and the Euratom nations (France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg) that offers U.S. financial aid, designs for five to seven nuclear reactors, engineers and scientists and a 20-year supply of reasonably priced U 235 for a new $350 million European power grid that will generate a million kilowatts of power. Since Europe needs cheap nuclear power more than the hydroelectric rich U.S., Ike believes the U.S. can use Euratom experience to study problems of nuclear-power development, will benefit even more because Euratom will inevitably pull European...
...Sent his annual report to Congress on U.S. participation in the U.N., credited the world organization with "solid achievements" during 1957. After Russia charged that the U.S. was urging Turkey to attack Syria, wrote the President, the U.N. Assembly's open discussion "demonstrated to the world that Syria and the Soviet Union had manufactured the 'crisis' as a propaganda maneuver against the West...
...Congress last week...