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...Democratic side, he said he "had a hunch the tide of public opinion on Secretary of State Dean Acheson has turned...
...people." No doubt the statement seemed true to him at that dramatic moment-because it was just the right statement for that moment. Swayed by many principles, guided by none, and moved deeply only by a profound sense of the drama of his own life, Goering lived by whim, hunch, and egotism. He alone of the Nazi leaders could have signed the anti-Semitic N¨urnberg Laws and then, at his wife's plea, intervened to save a number of Jews from death and torture, chuckling playfully as he did so: "We had better put up a sign...
...President. As a longtime Eisenhower backer, Pundit Roberts had some familiar things to say: "Events in Europe will determine if he will run . . . I don't speak for him, but if rearming and rewelding Western Europe together . . . is well along its way, it's my guess and hunch that Ike would accept an honest-to-goodness draft for the presidency-not because he wants it, but on grounds of duty." But Roberts also had a new gem to drop-a straight-from-head-quarters answer to the political question of the year. Said Roberts: "General Eisenhower has told...
...China, my hunch is that it will pay to keep behind the official Chinese Communist position-far enough not to be covered by the same label-but enough ahead of the active Chinese liberals to be noticeable . . . For the U.S.S.R.-back their international policy in general, but without using their slogans and above all without giving them or anybody else an impression of 'subservience...
...President had mustered up all the power of his office to make their return to Washington a private affair. He complains often and bitterly about the intrusions of the presidency on his family life. Democrats who argue that the President will not run again in 1952 base their hunch principally on Bess Truman's well-known antipathy to life in a goldfish bowl...