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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resolute Spirit. First order of business amid this tumult was to accept a degree in political science from the University of Ankara. The citation praised Eisenhower as soldier and President, noted that he had served as president of Columbia University. Another honor: honorary membership in the Turkish War Veterans Association. Said Ike, as he accepted: "I know what kind of fighters the Turks are, so I appreciate this very much...
...SHALL try to convey to everyone our earnestness in striving to reduce the tensions dividing mankind-an effort first requiring, as indeed Mr. Khrushchev agrees, the beginning of mutual disarmament. Of course, I shall stress that the first requirement for mutual disarmament is mutual verification...
...believing, we look on our nation's great wealth as more than a hard-earned resource to be used only for our own material good. If we can truly cooperate with other nations, especially our friends of the free world, we can first defeat the evils of hunger, privation and disease. Thus we can develop a healthier, more prosperous world, and in the process develop greater prosperity for ourselves...
Lanky Neil McElroy eased through a cluster of photographers in the White House conference room and shook the hand of the darkly handsome man standing by the fireplace. "Take charge, boy," he said, with a broad grin. "This is what you call the first team going in." A few minutes later, while President Eisenhower and the Pentagon's top brass looked on approvingly, Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, was sworn in as the nation's seventh Secretary of Defense...
...board chairman at upwards of $285,000) is an attractive, extraverted salesman-impatient with details or lengthy briefings, a man who shrinks from offending a friend or customer, who agonizes over difficult decisions. In his 26 months as Defense Secretary, which began so dramatically only five days after the first Sputnik soared into history, McElroy has had a hit-or-miss record (TIME, June 22). As a salesman, succeeding rough-handed "Engine Charlie" Wilson, he did a brilliant job of persuading Congress to accept his budgets-and then some. Congress, in fact, gave him some $806 million more than...