Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to express my complete agreement with the views on Quemoy and Matsu as expressed by Dulles and Nixon...
...people of this country were fooled once too often by Vice President Nixon and his blatant opportunism, but they can not be fooled all the time-as testified by the "weight of the mail...
...Eisenhower last week. He said that he "deplored" the exchange of criticism and reply on official actions; that when he himself is accused he does not expect to answer; and that America's interests will be best served "if we do not indulge in this kind of thing." Richard Nixon called this "an unsound idea" ("one of the reasons the Republican party is in trouble today") and insisted on the opposite policy. John Foster Dulles took turns agreeing with both and then issued a "clarification" showing that there hadn't been any real disagreement all along...
...Strong public criticism [TIME, Oct. 6] of Mr. Dulles' suicidal foreign policy on Quemoy and Matsu was called a betrayal of our State Department which might lead the Communists to think we are bluffing and thereby involve us in a total war. Nixon would like to shut up public opinion simply because it exposes a ghastly mistake. Not to publish these crucial facts about the truth of public opinion in a crisis would be a mockery of democracy. Perhaps the majority of Americans will reject Nixon's brand of democracy in the next election...
...result, Mr. Nixon is widely regarded in Latin America as an anti-democratic figure, and this is very damaging at a time when tides of popular democratic sentiment are running strong," he concluded...