Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recheck and confirm their diagnosis; 2) to avoid alarming the country and the world in the absence of confirmed findings. White House Staff Secretary Andrew Goodpaster called Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, who was in Paris laying the groundwork for the President's scheduled visit to the NATO Council meeting Dec. 16, to ask him to come back to Washington. When word of the President's illness reached him in a Paris hotel lobby, Jim Hagerty wept...
...permission to receive a few official visitors-Nixon, Adams, Hagerty and the King of Morocco. He put in a half-hour's formal work on state papers, signed his name a dozen times, his initials once, attended to items that ranged from the month's NATO Council meeting through next year's federal budget...
...NATO country was talking in terms of diplomatic blackmail, or even of bargaining their new importance against the U.S.'s need. But the need is now more nearly mutual. That change in balance will be reflected in the deliberations of the NATO leaders later this month...
...little nervous at learning for the first time that their countries were to be the bases for strategic retaliation. The Norwegians and Danes, who have long since made it clear that they want no strategic missile bases on their soil, remained uninterested. The Dutch and Belgians still felt NATO ought to concentrate more heavily on building up conventional forces for the defense of The Netherlands and Belgium. The West Germans, whose enthusiasm for missile sites within their frontiers is restrained, grumbled that they were fed up with learning of basic U.S. decisions from the newspapers...
Europe was still determined to strengthen NATO and the free world's defenses. But in the past the U.S. has "offered" to defend Europe. The Europeans, who have a quick ear for the unsaid, are well aware that for the U.S.'s own defense, the U.S. now "has to" have Europe's geography if its IRBMs are to cancel out the threat of Russia's ICBMs...