Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Eisenhower was plainly determined to defend his military budget. Asked a provocative question about defense spending at his news conference last week, the President bristled. "I've spent my life in this." he snapped, "and I know more about it than almost anybody, I think, in the country. I believe that the matter of defense has been handled well and efficiently." The closer, item-by-item analysis of the defense budget to be made by Congress and the country's military specialists would throw more specific light on the issue. The key question: Ike says...
Kishi served the Japanese war machine faithfully and well, and he makes no bones of it. When a newsman tactfully suggested in 1957 that Kishi had no option but to accept the Emperor's decision to go to war, he replied curtly: "I have no wish to defend myself that way. All the state ministers were responsible for assisting the Emperor to make the decision." As always, Kishi had a practical plan. Japan, he argued, was using only 10% of its production in the war with China ("Chicken feed!"), and by properly organizing the remainder could win quick military...
...Barrette found his labor-baiting, domineering boss so difficult to get along with that for the last 21 months of the Duplessis regime Barrette ran his department from Joliette, virtually boycotted cabinet meetings. In his first words as premier, he identified himself with the Sauve reforms, pledged himself to defend French Canada's historic stance "without rancor or pettifogging." Under no illusion that he cast as large a shadow as Strongman Duplessis or the brilliant Sauve, Barrette at least did not underestimate his office. "Someone once asked me what I thought of a certain Prime Minister of England...
...about the last of the dyed-in-the-wool liberals, and a poorboy (see box) "spokesman" for the "plain people." Adroit Campaigner Humphrey based his pitch on the claim that Vice President Richard Nixon can be beaten only by a nominee who can "carry the fight, campaign vigorously, unafraid, defend the record of his party, [and who can] start out with the props whirling, full steam ahead . . . and even prepare for some turbulent weather." But first there was the matter of getting the Democratic nomination: he would enter the primaries in Wisconsin and South Dakota (where he has his best...