Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quemoy & Matsu. There were fewer than ten minutes left when a newsman threw Kennedy the question that made headlines: Since he favored withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Nationalist Chinese offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, couldn't that be interpreted as appeasement? Answered Kennedy: Administration experts including Secretary of State Herter (as Under Secretary in 1958) have declared Quemoy and Matsu strategically indefensible, so "we should consult with [the Nationalists] and attempt to work out a plan by which the line is drawn at the island of Formosa ... I think it is unwise to take the chance...
...Doing of It. Along the way. Bill Knowland also proved that he was a newsman. Always long on news, the Trib got longer; today it carries more news linage than any other evening paper in the U.S., has a larger cityside news staff-54 reporters-than any of across-the-bay San Francisco's three papers...
...York by a U.S. court order,* Castro requested that Khrushchev lend him a Soviet plane. Promptly a Soviet Il-18 turboprop turned up. Beaming, Castro read newsmen another homily: "The U.S. takes away our plane and the Soviets give us a plane. The Soviets are our friends." A newsman asked if his government was Communist and Castro snorted: "You've got Communism on your mind. Everybody who is not like Chiang Kai-shek or Franco or Adenauer is a Communist for you. We are by the humble people, of the humble people and for the humble people-you know...
...Lodge still occasionally antagonizes a newsman by addressing him as "my good man" or "my dear man," but he is fighting the habit. At a press conference in Chicago last week, he used "my dear man" in speaking to a reporter, then smilingly corrected himself: "I was criticized for using that phrase, so strike...
...speech to a Republican audience in the Philadelphia suburb of Abington, Lodge said that the way to "reduce the danger of a hot war" was to "win the cold war." On Lodge's Boston home grounds, during what was billed as a nonpolitical "homecoming," a newsman asked him how he proposed to go about winning the cold war. One way that would help, said Lodge, would be to "follow the maxim of Stone wall Jackson-'Mystify, mislead, and surprise' "-and therefore he wasn't telling...