Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is why the "nuclear issue" is the decisive issue of this campaign...
...price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). In South Viet Nam, the political and military situation was such that by November there might not be any pieces left for the U.S. to pick up. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week predicted that the Chinese Communists might explode their first nuclear device "in the near future," warned that within ten years the Chicoms would have the wherewithal to deliver an atomic assault on their enemies. And in New York City, the U.S. Government shamefacedly had to withdraw its case against two top-ranking Soviet spies and send them home scot free...
...said, "is an issue where we are on the defensive. The argument is Goldwater increases the chances of war. If that charge is correct, we deserve to lose. But just the opposite is true. Goldwater, because he is for strong, firm policies, is for peace." Nixon called the nuclear-control controversy a "false issue," said that Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson had already set up procedures by which the NATO commander had emergency authority to use some nuclear weapons. Cried Nixon: "The real issue is how to prevent situations where such decisions must be made...
Pointing with Pride. The next day, before an enthusiastic G.O.P. crowd in Davenport, Iowa, Nixon continued the attack, said that "unless we get a new Administration, the danger of war is greatly increased." He reminded his audience that giving some nuclear-weapons authority to the NATO commander is "what we're doing right now," and that "it is responsible and not rash...
...this delights "Gen" Blatt, who currently holds elective office as Pennsylvania's state secretary of internal affairs. She seems to be running more against Goldwater than against Scott. She has been particularly effective in tarring Goldwater with a trigger-happy nuclear image. Noting that she has never married and is therefore childless, she says of Goldwater: "I don't want to trust the safety of my nieces and nephews or your sons and daughters and husbands to a man like that...