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...Possibly you are a bit wrong occasionally," said the President, speaking off the cuff and off his chest, "just as you think I am wrong." Grinning, he continued: "I understand that by tradition, by history, you are completely and absolutely nonpolitical. I can't tell you what a relief it is to me to address an audience where nothing political is expected of me one way or the other." The convention delegates roared with laughter...
...exploit the virgin lands. Taking from other sectors of the economy to build the new enterprise brought to mind Russian Satirist Krylov's fable of Trishka, the poor simpleton who patched a hole in the elbow of his coat by cutting a piece of cloth from the cuff, patched the new hole by cutting away the coattails, finally went about in a coat cut shorter than his vest...
Adlai Stevenson was not present because of "a geological expedition into my interior," his way of explaining an operation for kidney stones. But Harry Truman was. Off the cuff, Harry cracked jokes for ten minutes and, turning serious, warned: "We can't have the friendship of the free world if we are going to insult our friends and allies...
...hours later, he was clad in a sober dark blue suit, ready for business. In his brief (62 min.) stopover in the capital, Ike paid his respects in Constitution Hall to the Daughters of the American Revolution, who gave him an uproarious welcome, listened raptly to his off-the-cuff remarks, then went back to the business of passing resolutions, some of them aimed at Eisenhower policies...
Once again the Administration has demonstrated that the best way to make policy is to make it off the cuff. Vice President Nixon, speaking to a meeting of newspaper editors, first advocated the use of American troops in Indo-China, then said that on the basis of existing evidence, he considered physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer "a loyal American." Only a short time before, Secretary of Defense Wilson announced, in effect, that even if Oppenheimer's name were cleared, he still should not be allowed back in Government employ...