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...Communists have won in Indo-China, and it is time we woke up . . . Why does our Government lull us with lowered taxes, business-as-usual talk? What we need is to arm and to make ready. We should tax till it hurts. Develop our military. Enact the universal military service legislation. President Eisenhower is a great military leader. What is stopping him from advising Congress and the people of the danger and of the necessary steps to be taken...
Last March, urging Congress to enact the Randall Commission's tariff recommendations, President Eisenhower said: "If we fail in our trade policy, we may fail in all. Our domestic employment, our standard of living, our security and the solidarity of the free world-all are involved. "Last week Senate Democrats underlined the President's failure to fight for a program that he had said was necessary...
...vote of the entire faculty will not be required to enact the new policy since the scheduling of examinations is entirely a departmental affair...
...long time has passed," they wrote, "since an American President has seriously asked the Congress to enact a serious and comprehensive program of legislation." With that, they gave the back of their column's hand to an old friend. "The programs of Harry S. Truman were mainly intended, after all, not to be enacted into law, but to put Congress on the spot. Truman himself would probably have been horrified if the lawmakers had actually voted for some of his more extreme and ill-digested suggestions, such as the Oscar Ewing health and social security plans...
...gaggle of half-armed crofters opposing a fairly small troop of British regulars. Producer Disney seems to have had an idea that other producers might profitably take up: that one good way to recapture the excitement of history-which is exciting essentially because it really happened-is to re-enact the event as much as possible in the way it originally happened...