Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Were the Joint Chiefs prepared to back up this military mission with troops, ships and squadrons if something went wrong with the calculations, if the Communists beat the Nationalists to the punch again? Hadn't even Douglas MacArthur (who had influenced the J.C.S. decision to send a mission to Formosa) said that the island did not warrant the commitment of U.S. troops? What did the Joint Chiefs hope to gain by risking the U.S.'s reputation and its military mission in such a shaky gesture...
George Elsey, 31, is a fresh-faced Princeton graduate who worked in Franklin Roosevelt's White House map room during the war, buckled down afterwards as a researcher for Clifford During the 1948 campaign he wrote the backgrounds and many of the punch lines for Harry Truman's speeches in his 31,500-mile campaign. He is now one of the men at work researching, rewriting and polishing the State of the Union, budget and economic messages which the President will deliver to the new session of the 81st Congress...