Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even serious illness could disrupt the tranquillity of his first term, however. Late in the summer of 1955, the President, fishing and golfing in Colorado, suffered the first of his heart attacks but recovered quickly. Less than a year later, in June 1956, he was stricken again, this time with ileitis, which required major surgery. To his credit, Nixon, then Vice President, responded with tact and humility in a situation that might have stopped other men. After two such illnesses, it seemed impossible that Ike would run for reelection. But he did. "I want to finish what I have started...
...American history" were asked to rate the Presidents. Eisenhower received a low "average" rating, ranking 22nd among the first 34, just above Andrew Johnson. Today he would probably receive a higher mark. The staff system he brought to the White House, for example?a target of ridicule in the late '50s and early '60s?is now seen as his valuable addition to the presidency. No President since World war II had been more resistant to the demands of the military than General Eisenhower. "We must guard," he said, "against feverish building of vast armaments to meet glibly predicted moments...
...James Banner, Princeton University: "His Administration was a period of drift rather than mastery. There was a social revolution occurring, and Eisenhower was not aware of it. He left it to Kennedy and Johnson, who came almost too late. At the same time, it was Eisenhower and only Eisenhower who struck out at the military-industrial complex. That was the high point of his presidency...
...three decades, they flocked to the cities from the land of cotton, the Great Plains, the corn belt and Appalachia. It was greater even than the great Western trek of the late 19th century. In 1940, 30.5 million Americans lived on farms. Only 10.5 million remain. Now the city-bound flow has slowed to a trickle. According to new data compiled by the Agriculture Department, the farm labor force (age 14 or older) has remained static during the past two years...
After Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi scanned the book, he erupted. Among other things, Kawasaki had quoted a remark generally attributed to General Charles de Gaulle: just before a formal chat in 1964 with the late Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, he confided that "today I am going to have a little talk with a transistor-radio salesman." Even more annoying to Aichi was Kawasaki's charge that in Japan "there is clearly an absence of leadership at the top, no realization of what is best in the national interest, a shortage of moral courage and discipline." Political parties got short...