Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garden, Ike made his last, best speech of the campaign. He put aside hard knocks at the opposition, to speak "in terms as simple as these-of night and day, of the evil we face and the goodness we cherish, of the tyranny we confront and the freedom we defend...
...January 1951, he made his famous tour of the NATO nations, then came home at the height of the Great Debate on U.S. foreign policy to testify before Congress on whether or not Western Europe had the will and the power to defend itself, i.e., whether it was a sound investment for U.S. military help. Ike's answer was a firm yes. He swung popular and congressional opinion in a way Politician Harry Truman had been unable...
...McCarthy and himself, but added that they differed on "method," not "objectives," i.e., uprooting of Communism in Government. In his big Milwaukee speech, in which he endorsed the entire Republican ticket in Wisconsin, Eisenhower did not mention McCarthy's name. He said: "We would have nothing left to defend if we allowed ourselves to be swept into any spirit of violent vigilantism. [But] at the same time we have the right to call a spade a spade. That means, in every proved case, the right to call...
Korea. Eisenhower has said repeatedly that we "must make certain that those southern Koreans . . . can be prepared to defend their own front lines" with only relatively small U.S. forces remaining. He has not said that such a changeover can take place in the near future. He has not advocated U.S. withdrawal. He has said several times that he has no panacea to offer for the ending of the Korean war. But in his Detroit speech last week, in which he pledged to go to Korea himself, if elected, to survey the situation (see above), Eisenhower denounced defeatism which "dares...
Communism at Home. He pledges to cleanse the Government from top to bottom of subversives, without using the methods that wound "the innocent as well as the guilty . . . Freedom can defend itself without destroying itself...