Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President met Herter at his farmhouse door, took him inside for a 75-minute discussion on the Western Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting just concluded at Paris. Herter's verdict on the meeting: "Very successful." Next day, he went to Walter Reed Hospital, briefed ailing Predecessor John Foster Dulles...
...last week the President drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital to attend the swearing-in of Foster Dulles as a new $20,000-a-year special consultant to the President with full Cabinet rank. Because Dulles tires easily, the small group at the ceremony-Ike, Dulles, Nixon, Herter, Janet Dulles and a few others-sat down while the President read to Dulles this citation: "Your willingness to continue to contribute your abundant talents and unique experience to the service of the U.S. and the free world is but one more example of your magnificent spirit and devotion to the nation...
...sing a second chorus of postvacation blues: he was too busy. Though he ducked a press conference, he presided over meetings of Republican congressional leaders, the National Security Council and the Cabinet, as well as over the swearing-in of Secretary of State Herter and Special Consultant John Foster Dulles. He also opened a new chapter in his drive for a balanced budget by briefly taking advantage of the public-opinion spotlight focused on the I.C.C. meeting and on a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers...
Since U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took ill and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan stepped forward toward the leadership of the free world, the British press has been bursting with local pride. And in the process of building Macmillan up, even such ordinarily responsible papers as the Daily Telegraph and the weekly Observer have joined the raucous "popular" press in pot-shooting at an old friend. The target: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, depicted in the British press as a sick, doddering old man who cannot possibly match wits with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev...
...Muggeridge fired even more wildly. Said Muggeridge, under the title "Dead Men Leading": "Probably no powerful country in history has had quite so dead a government as the U.S. has today. It is not just a matter of the infirmities of its two principal figures-President Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Apart from the decrepitude of the one and the fatal illness of the other, the government itself is scarcely operative...