Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspaper accounts of his illness and the speculation about a successor depressed him. But his spirits lifted with a second visit from President Eisenhower, after which the President headed off the speculation at the presidential news conference.
Mitchell's sharpest setback came last week in the President's news conference. Asked about extension of the emergency law, Eisenhower came back with a broad negative. "I don't think this is the time to put the Federal Government back into a thing of this kind...
"People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," shot back Reuther. He was ready even on a tropical isle with a press release: "Mr. President, I have spent no time on the sunny beaches of Puerto Rico, nor have I been with you and your big business friends on...
One U.S. diplomat who can claim to have bested the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Nikita Khrushchev in a face-to-face cold-war skirmish is Careerman James W. Riddleberger. Time: May 1955. Place: Belgrade, at a Yugoslav dinner party in honor of visiting Premier Khrushchev. Busy at his favorite party...
In a TV question-and-answer show filmed in Washington and telecast in Madison, Proxmire attacked Johnson and much that is sacred to him: 1) the control of Congress by the two Texans, Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (''When you get these two men together with the...