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Said Walker in announcing his candidacy: "National survival is the overriding issue. America's retreat, based on a no-win policy, has put this nation in dire peril . . . There is no hope in sight for relief from the devious feelers of machine politics. America is stronger than the thunder on the left would have us believe...
Drastic Changes. To support his proposed new tariff-cutting powers, the President will urgently ask Congress to make drastic changes in the so-called "peril point" and "escape clause" provisions of the present U.S. trade...
...peril point clause requires the President to submit to the Tariff Commission a confidential list of all items on which he proposes to cut tariffs. The commission* then suggests the lowest tariffs it considers possible on each item without imperiling domestic industries. The President is not bound by the commission's recommendations, but if he disregards them he must make lengthy explanations to Congress. In practice, the process is so complex that only on rare occasions have the peril point findings of the Tariff Commission been overruled...
...threats from those who would abolish the "consent of the governed." But the test that faces the youngest elected and the most vigorous President of the 20th century - and all those who live under his leadership-is far greater: to meet and battle, in a time of great national peril, the marauding forces of Communism on every front in every part of the world. In his first year as President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy showed qualities that have made him a promising leader in that battle. Those same qualities, if developed further, may yet make him a great President...
...United Nations' painful effort to pacify a province called Katanga and unify an emerging nation called Congo. To many it seemed a strange and distant venue to win so much of the world's attention. In a sense, it was; the Congo crisis hardly compared with the peril of war in tense Berlin, nor was it as immediate a danger to peace as the furtive Communist advances in the paddyfields of Southeast Asia. In the U.S. and elsewhere, many would have liked to wash their hands of the whole mess and leave the Congolese to fight...