Word: reston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since the campaign began, Candidate Tom Dewey was directly challenged on two matters of political record. The challenger was the New York Times's able reporter James B. Reston. The dispute centered on the origins of the nation's bipartisan foreign policy and the European Recovery Program...
...Timesman Reston did not dispute Dewey's full cooperation, once the bipartisan plan had been launched. But he refuted Dewey's interpretation of the plan's origins by quoting from Cordell Hull's Memoirs. They pointed out that it was Hull who had first suggested, in March 1944, the formation of a bipartisan group of Senators to discuss the framework of U.N. In August of that year Dewey had criticized the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, after which, said the Memoirs, it was Hull again who took the initiative by inviting Dewey to consultations with the State Department...
...Reston then singled out Dewey's charge that "Republican statesmanship" had saved EGA from being "just another foreign-relief handout." Said Reston: "Secretary Marshall's speech at Harvard, announcing the ERP, emphasized that the United States could not go further until the European nations themselves got together and defined and devised a program that would bring about the recovery of Europe...
...Regrets. On the final night, as he sat before a television screen with his family and the New York Times's James Reston, he said: "I don't suppose anybody will believe me now, but the truth is I'm pleased and relieved. Right now I'm drawing my first really relaxed breath in a year...
Wrote New York Timesman James Reston: "One more 'victory' like this one would be the undoing of both candidates...