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...article, The Unimpressive Record of Atomic Diplomacy, McGeorge Bundy, who was John F. Kennedy's National Security Adviser, takes a somewhat different tack. Arguing that "there is very little evidence that American atomic supremacy was helpful in American diplomacy," Bundy cites Iran in 1946 and Quemoy and Matsu in 1955 and 1958. But he also suggests that atomic diplomacy did not affect the outcome of Korea either. Nixon says otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the President Saw: A Nation Coming Into Its Own | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...make things duller, no aces or face cards in the deck. Add Nader and Buchanan, and all of a sudden you are playing night baseball, high-low, push-crunch, deuces, treys and one-eyed jacks wild. Sloppy, but more fun. I'll see your Quemoy, and raise you Matsu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ralph and Pat Should Be in the Debates | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...agree with Mark Thompson's assessment that China is not likely to invade Taiwan in the near future [WORLD, March 27], since it cannot be sure of success. However, China could seize the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu before January 2001--to take advantage of President Clinton's aversion to war casualties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 17, 2000 | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...Clinton's pygmy proposals are representative of more than what they seem at first glance. In 1960, John F. Kennedy '40 and Richard M. Nixon spent much of the fall arguing about the fate of Quemoy and Matsu, two small islands off the coast of China. Yet for all the hand-wringing that year and thenceforth about spending so much of the election on such minute specks of land, the argument was really about how the candidates would deal with the Communist menace--a debate definitely worth having. When George Bush spent the fall of 1988 talking about the Pledge...

Author: By Andrei H. Cherny, | Title: Recent Graduate Joins Group of Clinton-Gore Speechwriters | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

...Clinton's pygmy proposals are representative of more than what they seem at first glance. In 1960, John F. Kennedy '40 and Richard M. Nixon spent much of the fall arguing about the fate of Quemoy and Matsu, two small islands off the coast of China. Yet for all the hand-wringing that year and thenceforth about spending so much of the election on such minute specks of land, the argument was really about how the candidates would deal with the Communist menace--a debate definitely worth having. When George Bush spent the Fall of 1988 talking about the Rledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Campaign of the Future | 11/7/1996 | See Source »

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