Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eisenhower certainly was annoyed with Barry - mostly because of that famed Goldwater crack that "one Eisenhower in a decade is enough." But Goldwater has recently gone to great lengths to try to explain to Ike that the remark was quoted out of context, that he had meant no slur at all. Eisenhower seemed mollified...
...West Berlin, where he was made an honorary citizen although the welcoming crowds were notably thin, he argued that if grain sales to Russia were justifiable on humanitarian grounds, the West should exact a humanitarian price: demolition of the Berlin Wall. He also jolted his hosts with the remark that he might yet re-enter politics, "if I am asked to do so." As Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt put it, no one could really believe that Konrad Adenauer would become a political teetotaler...
...still mad at him for having cracked that "one Eisenhower in a decade is enough" when asked what he thought about Milton Eisenhower as a presidential possibility. Goldwater is trying to set things right with Ike. He has written Bryce Harlow, a key pipeline to Eisenhower, explaining that the remark was made in the context of the Kennedy dynasty issue, that he actually said the American people would not take another Kennedy after Jack, just as one Eisenhower in a decade was enough. Also, Goldwater Worker John Tower recently went to Gettysburg for a friendly chat, and Goldwater himself hopes...
...presenting the medal to Hope, the President noted wryly that the comic's congressional commendation was "the only bill we've gotten by lately." That good-humored but less-than-half-joking remark was somehow symbolic of the President's mood of the week-in which he displayed a relaxed, above-the-battle attitude toward all manner of serious issues...
...There was fire in her eyes and in her words. The Diem government would never yield to "perfidious blackmailing attacks," she exclaimed. What about the concern for South Viet Nam's Buddhists voiced by the Vatican? Pope Paul VI is too "easily worried," retorted Mme. Nhu. Her acid remark supplemented earlier comments on the same subject on French television: "As a Catholic, I am only required to believe in the dogmas of my religion and the Pope. The Pope is only infallible when he decrees something ex cathedra. I do not believe that he will put himself...