Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office. And he seemed, in a way, to be trying to lay down a code of conduct for second-term Presidents who would follow him in office. "I'm not thinking so much of public images as I am the public good," he said in response to another question. "I call your attention again [to the fact] that I cannot be running for anything. I am finished with public life when . . . 18 months are over...
...avowed political enemy of fellow Hoosier Butler, who opposed Hartke's nomination last year) fairly wooed the muse: "His hand has been firm on the tiller, insisting that the ship of state not founder on the rocks of partisanship. No one who has sat in this chamber could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson and his program. Among them: Alaska's Bob Bartlett, Florida's Spessard Holland, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Alabama...
...Dalai Lama, declared that "wherever I am accompanied by my ministers, the people of Tibet look upon us as their government." His mild statement of sovereignty was attacked not by the Red Chinese but by his Indian hosts. Nehru's government sharply pointed out that there was no question of a Tibetan government-in-exile "under the Dalai Lama functioning in India," and seemed to concede that Tibet is an internal affair of Red China. Sounding both old and tired of it all, Prime Minister Nehru, 69, said he could appreciate the Dalai Lama's predicament...
...questioner wanted to know if it was not true that the Chinese Reds were introducing necessary land reforms in feudal Tibet. Yes. said Narayan, and, in the days of empire, the British had introduced valuable reforms in India-railways, telegraphs, administration-"so we should have welcomed them in our country, but we didn't. That is really an amazing question for an Indian...
Cavalcade can probably find enough new commercials to fill President Moore's promise of 13 free weeks. Whether the show will back up his argument that advertising is art is another question. But Moore is confident that he will find a sponsor willing to pay for the privilege of pushing other people's products...