Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thanks for Nothing. In Dillon, S.C., after running a far-out last in the four-man Democratic race for sheriff, Worth Elvington advertised in local newspapers, offering a $100 reward "for authentic information as to the names of the 13 people who voted for me at Lake View in Tuesday's primary. I would like to personally thank these people...
...mistaken notion that he could take Ike into camp, negotiate with him some kind of U.S. retreat from Berlin (Ike had once called the Berlin situation "abnormal"). The U.S.'s determination to stand firm in Berlin, made evident in tough speeches by Secretary of State Herter, Under Secretary Dillon and the President himself, jolted that conviction...
...turning point in Khrushchev's thinking apparently came in late April, when Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, in a speech to an A.F.L.-C.I.O. meeting, echoed Secretary Herter's warning that there was little prospect for significant agreements being reached at the summit, and implied that any progress at all depended on Soviet willingness to abandon its demands on West Berlin. Only a month before, sauntering through the Rambouillet gardens with the visiting Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle had concluded that Nikita was not going to press too hard at the summit. But five days after Dillon...
...Some people," said he grimly, "apparently hope to reduce this meeting to an ineffectual exchange of opinions and pleasant-it may be-talks, and to evade the working-out of concrete decisions . . . I should like to tell Mr. Dillon and those who may share his views that such methods are least of all suited for dealing with the Soviet Union...
...ferocious attack on the West since he demanded allied withdrawal from Berlin 18 months ago. Khrushchev made clear that the U-2 "banditry" was not the only thing that bothered him. He also cited recent speeches by such U.S. leaders as Secretary of State Herter, Under Secretary of State Dillon and Vice President Nixon. All, growled Khrushchev, were "a bad sign" for the summit. What seemed to rankle most of all was Dillon's speech, which charged bluntly that East Berliners "are constrained to live under a totalitarian regime, unlawfully imposed by a foreign power," and warned that...