Word: overspoken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Overspoken. In New York City, he sketched briefly a post-Viet Nam foreign policy that envisioned "open doors rather than iron curtains," the "building of peaceful bridges" toward Communist China, new efforts toward arms control, multilateral development programs for the hungry nations. To those who accuse the U.S. of "arrogance of power," he replied that America has nothing to apologize for; yet he used none of the hyperbolic terms that have marked some of his foreign policy pronouncements in recent years. Later he even acknowledged that perhaps "we overspoke ourselves" in promising to "go any place, any time" to negotiate...
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