Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of Nixon's week was given over mainly to hammering out the Administration's program for presentation to legislative leaders. Friday morning the conference was with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; that afternoon the Agriculture Department proposals were discussed; next morning it was the Mutual Security program. The style of the sessions was informal, generally on a first-name basis, although some officials, e.g., Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, alternated between "Mr. Vice President" and "Dick...
...which laid down the rule that nonessential spending must give way to defense in Sputnik's day-as a broad outline. Did the proposed program meet the requirements of that speech? If so, it was approved. If not, more work had to be done. At the meeting on Mutual Security, Nixon repeated a phrase he has come to use with increasing frequency: "Let's not lean with the wind," i.e., the Administration should not take the easy political way out by sacrificing vital foreign-aid funds...
Responsibility & Confidence. From the beginning, Dwight Eisenhower had given Nixon more participation in Government than any other Vice President before him. During the second term, Nixon's responsibilities were notably increased. Example: Ike recently gave him the personal assignment of pushing both the Mutual Security and the Reciprocal Trade programs, both vital to the nation's security. The job amounted to more than mere advocacy: Nixon was told to "develop an approach" to foreign aid and foreign trade. Nixon's self-confidence grew with added responsibilities. He never clears a speech ahead of time with the White...
...what it thinks is right without worrying too much about public opinion; Nixon, as an aide explains, knows that "the people run the country, and if you don't know what the people think, you're in trouble." Nonetheless, Dick Nixon and Sherman Adams have a mutual professional respect, and last week, far from struggling for power, they were working together...
Plans for a bigger Defense Department budget and increased spending by mutual security agencies were laid before 31 congressional leaders from both parties at a five-hour White House briefing...