Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Militarily," said Nixon, "the Soviet Union is not one bit stronger today than it was before the satellite was launched. The free world remains stronger militarily than the Communist world. And we can meet and defeat any potential enemy who might dare to launch an attack...
...flew westward to San Francisco to address the International Industrial Development Conference, Vice President Richard Nixon did some heavy thinking. Nixon had never quite agreed, in National Security Council or Cabinet meetings, with the budget-first thinking that had put a $38-billion ceiling on defense spending. Now, in the second week of Sputnik, he drafted a speech that was considerably stronger than the President's own let's-keep-our-shirts-on position. Said Nixon, in effect, "Let's roll up our sleeves," and thereby he set the Administration on a realistic course between the hand...
...Outer-Space Basketball." Nixon was soon joined in his anti-complacency mood by another powerful Administration member: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Said Dulles, replying to questions about Sputnik at his press conference: "I think it is perhaps a good thing that this satellite was put up in good time so that there would not be an undue complacency. I think [we] felt generally that we were almost automatically ahead of the Russians in every respect. Well, that is not so, and those of us who have been close to the situation have, I think, realized that for some...
...Nixon-Dulles statements did not and could not overcome the general impression that the Administration was taking a bland view of Sputnik. Since the Soviet satellite first swirled skyward, there had been a continuous whirl of top-policy meetings behind closed Washington doors. ("A conference is not a place," said a Washington wag. "It is a technique for hiding.") The only apparent results came with the announcements that 1) Defense Department research and development funds would have to be cut by 10% because of an order issued last August by retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, and that 2) new Defense...
...White House said President Eisenhower accepted the resignation and will appoint Dep. Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers Jr. to the Cabinet post. Rogers is a close friend of Vice President Nixon...