Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want one." Dwight Eisenhower saw no need to talk over his program for the congressional session that convenes this week. Reason: he plans no brand-new programs, no departures from the basics he stressed in earlier sessions - balance the budget, fight inflation, uphold foreign aid, resist crash programs. He has decided to hold the line on the domestic front while concentrating, in his final year in the presidency, on one paramount undertaking: the quest for peace. The President's single-minded objective this year, say White House aides, is to make solid progress toward thawing cold-war tensions...
...glasses were perched on his broken nose, but, instead of his customary open shirt, Lacson was soberly clad in a blue suit and maroon tie. In a 35-minute speech he promised Manila land-reclamation projects, bigger parks, new farmers' markets and bus terminals. Typically, he could not resist taking a crack at the Philippines' President...
...Chance. Dwight Eisenhower first ran for President with the idea that he might help bring the world closer to peace. In his first term he demonstrated in the Strait of Formosa that the U.S. would stand staunchly against aggression; he demonstrated in the Suez crisis that the U.S. would resist aggression by its friends as well as its enemies, that peace was meaningless without justice. In 1956, he decided to run for re-election despite two major illnesses and the possibility that a constitutional ban against a third term might dilute his effectiveness (in the event, the 22nd Amendment strengthened...