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...later but managed to go to the convention with only 19 delegates. He soon threw his support behind Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike remembered and later made Stassen chairman of the Foreign Operations Administration. In 1955 he moved up to the cabinet level post of special assistant for disarmament. A hawk who had advocated the use of nuclear weapons against China during the Korean War but a strong advocate of negotiation, he was in charge formulating the "Open Skies" proposal and negotiating an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union. But he embarrassed Eisenhower in 1957 by revealing sensitive information...
...price tag for a marginal military I fix." Fred Ikle, another longtime 1 hawk who had joined the Administration as Under Secretary of Defense fense for Policy, feared that getting s the West Europeans to accept the missiles would cause more political trouble within the alliance than the missiles were worth...
...central dramas of the brief Kennedy Administration was his passage from a sometimes indiscriminate anti-Communist hard line to a deepening awareness of the real dangers of nuclear war. It did not help Kennedy in this passage that he assembled a staff of war-hawk anti-Communist intellectuals (McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow and Robert McNamara, for example) who were brilliantly nimble and self-confident and often disastrously wrong about what counted most. They could be overbearing men, and curiously disconnected from the realities of American life. Once, after Vice President Johnson talked wonderingly of all the brilliant characters Kennedy...
...soon as the planes landed in Frankfurt, their passengers were hustled into Black Hawk helicopters and dispatched to Wiesbaden and two other U.S. military hospitals. Of the 61 injured who were eventually flown to West Germany, about a dozen required major surgery, while others needed broken bones set or dirt and shards of glass cleaned out of hastily bandaged wounds. By Friday, most were in fair condition, and eight felt well enough to fly home to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington...
...Reagan's staunchest supporters on the importance of keeping troops in Lebanon has been Speaker O'Neill. In a private caucus of House Democrats Wednesday, Samuel Stratton of New York, generally a hawk, and Clarence Long of Maryland, generally a dove, proposed a joint resolution to cut off funding for the Marines in Lebanon. O'Neill rose at the end of the meeting to make a grandiloquent and emotional appeal. "This is not the time," he cried, "to cut and run." He urged the party to put "patriotism above partisanship" and said he supported Reagan "because...