Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quietly, almost casually, in his press conference last week, the President gave his own precedent-breaking answer: he has made his own arrangements for Vice President Richard Nixon to take over in the event of his disability...
Vacation-rested Dwight Eisenhower eased back into his White House routine last week only to find that the status of his health was still a lively topic of discussion. One of the first press-conference questions: Had cumulative illnesses forced him to reduce his work load by 25% (TIME, March 3)? Ike smiled at the question: "Well, I wish it were reduced, but-no, I don't think it has at all, and I never -this is the first time I even heard such a suggestion." Asked also: When would he undergo a second and final post-stroke neurological...
President Eisenhower, at his midweek press conference, tied the "recession" tag to the economy for the first time since droop set in last autumn (and once even slipped into calling it a "depression"). Added the Labor Department: the total of laid-off workers drawing unemployment-compensation checks hit 3,130,200 in mid-February, a record 7.5% of the 42 million earners covered by the system...
...President was already on record with a plain answer that was a forthright choice of moral right over political expediency. Asked about Benson's prospects at his press conference, Ike said: "He is honest in his great effort to find proper, reasonable, sensible programs. When we find a man of this dedication, this kind of courage, this kind of intellectual and personal honesty, we should say to ourselves, 'We just don't believe that America has come to the point where it wants to dispense with the services of that kind of a person...
...will seek great open areas, e.g., the Southwestern U.S., will rent missile sites from farmers and ranchers. In peacetime, the missile sites will stand unmanned, surrounded by electric fences, and patrolled from the air and on the ground. But in the event of war, nothing more than the press of a thumb on a Minuteman red switch would be needed to flip back the steel caps, fire the missiles in their tubes and shoot them out on 800-to 1,000-mile-high trajectories to preplanned targets. Still another new Minuteman paper asset: a secret new high speed to enable...