Word: matsu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soundings. In the wake of the Quemoy-Matsu debate, Formosan officials even wore Nixon buttons on Election Day, and President Chiang Kai-shek drafted a congratulatory telegram for Nixon; next day, the officials talked with forced cheer about Kennedy's support of the Eisenhower position. Perhaps the most unblushing reaction came in South Viet Nam, where just before last week's coup, Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau showed newsmen a copy of Kennedy's book, The Strategy of Peace, flipped it open to page 63 and pointed to a passage he had underlined in red, calling...
Richard Nixon blundered in announcing that he would defend Quemoy and Matsu. The American people are not willing to risk the start of World War III over these two piles of rocks on the doorstep of Communist China! Berlin and Formosa, yes; Quemoy and Matsu...
Invigorated by the sweet smell of success, Jack Kennedy swept his campaign into a dizzying, whirlwind windup. For the first time, both candidates were now using the state of the economy as their basic issue, giving everyone some rest from Quemoy, Matsu and Cuba. Kennedy struck home with economic issues in hard-pressed areas of Pennsylvania and Illinois, and conjured up the spectre of an economy "slipping into its third recession in six years" in areas that were not hard-pressed but were beginning to wonder if they might be. By his own oomph-no less than by virtue...
...Times, which has not endorsed a Democrat since 1944, when it recommended a fourth term for Franklin Roosevelt after opposing him for Terms II and III, came out for Kennedy in a limp and stodgy statement: "In the field of foreign policy . . . despite their sharp dispute over Quemoy and Matsu, the two candidates are in substantial agreement . . . But Senator Kennedy's approach . . . except for his momentary blunder suggesting intervention in Cuba . . . seems to us to be more reasoned, less emotional, more flexible, less doctrinaire, more imaginative, less negative." On domestic policy a Democratic President will have greater influence over...
...lacks that inner conviction and self-confidence which are the marks of the natural leader." Last week, on the question of how the U.S. should treat Castro's Cuba, Lippmann dolefully disagreed with Kennedy's solution, nonetheless declared Nixon's both "false and insincere." On Quemoy-Matsu. Nixon has simply been "slanderous" toward Kennedy...