Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premise that anything you do is all right, provided you are willing to talk about it. And the talk was not worth much, because instead of hedging they simply stated their principle that business's business is business and that it must generally go along with governments, U.S. or foreign as the case may be, on social questions. This leads to an immediate impasse. It is as if you are playing chess and your opponent moves his king so as to place himself in check. You explain to him that the move is not permissible, but he responds, "Your move...
...purpose, he said, was to urge support for eleven selected Democratic Senate candidates, all foreign policy rationalists and all in varying kinds of electoral trouble this fall. Almost as a throw-away, McCarthy noted that the Senate would be called upon to take the lead against the progressive "militarization" of our foreign policy. It was McCarthy's most trenchant line, but he didn't elaborate...
...failure to discuss his reasoning spotlighted not only his personal dilemma, but the increasingly touchy position his backers find themselves in as election day approaches. Simply, the next great Senate foreign policy stand will probably have little to do with the conduct of the Vietnam war. It will likely center around America's arms control policy, a policy with grave budgetary implications for federal action to redeem the cities...
...would have to throw his vote in with revolution--what a tedious perspective of prisons and law courts and worse ... No, exile would be better. Yet he loathed the thought of living anywhere but America--he was too American by now: he did not wish to walk down foreign streets and think with imperfect nostalgia of dirty grease on groovy hamburgers, not when he didn't even eat them here...
...rostrum--John J. Gilligan of Ohio, who defeated incumbent Frank Lausche in the Democratic primary, and Paul O'Dwyer of New York. O'Dwyer said a volunteer army should be put in place of the draft, the voting age should be lowered to 18, and "we should take the foreign policy of John Foster Dulles and scrap it once...