Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foster Dulles, said Ike when the luncheon conversation turned that way, is "competent . . . dedicated . . . loyal . . . efficient" and he is going to stay on the job. "He has my complete confidence."
Hard Sell. It was the same theme that Ike had stressed earlier in the day to the Republican House and Senate leadership at the regular weekly meeting at the White House. He was truly amazed, he told the leaders, that Dulles, so soon after his illness and during a time...
Ike's all-out private war in defense of Dulles was no idle campaign. Like everyone else in Washington, he was well aware that Arkansas' J. (for James) William Fulbright, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Oregon's Wayne Morse were heading up a group of Democratic...
Command Decisions. Ike was in no mood to bargain, and he took pains at his 101st press conference to make clear that Dulles would stay on the job. The critics, he noted, talked only generally about blunders and lack of leadership, but made "no constructive proposals for what even should...
Both Dulles and he had made mistakes, Ike conceded, but he had had no reason to change his high opinion of the Secretary of State. And in any event, said he, sending his definition of command responsibility ringing round Capitol Hill and the world: "Secretary Dulles . . . has never taken any...