Word: reston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roulette with the life of our nation ... On too many occasions the Republican Administration has acted unilaterally without adequate regard for our allies." Senator Hubert Humphrey made three formal statements in which he accused Dulles of "hocuspocus . . . fraud . . . callousness toward world opinion." The New York Times's James Reston concluded: "Mr. Dulles has added something new to the art of diplomatic blundering. This is the planned mistake. He doesn't stumble into booby traps: he digs them to size, studies them carefully, and then jumps...
...President, the result would be merely the added complication of warring liaison men. In today's White House organization, the best roads to the President lead through Sherman Adams (see chart). The Limited Power. Adams has immense power, to the extent that New York Timesman James Reston, studying the state of the nation during the period of the President's recuperation, recently wrote: "There is a growing feeling here that Mr. Adams is now exercising more power than any man in America...
...York Times's WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF JAMES RESTON PRESIDENT Eisenhower joined the propaganda parade with a vengeance. He produced the only new dramatic proposal of the week, the surprise of the conference for a variety of reasons. In the first place, it was generally regarded as unrealistic. Second, it is illegal under U.S. laws. Third, it seemed to other Western delegates to be a proposal which had no chance of being accepted. Fourth -and this was the greatest surprise of all-the idea apparently was not explored in any detail, if at all, with Congressional leaders, who make...
...face the Soviet statesman, CBS lined up three topflight Washington correspondents : Arthur Sylvester of the Newark News, James Reston of the New York Times and James Shepley of TIME. Meanwhile, Molotov laid down a condition for his appearance. Refusing to be freely questioned by the reporters, he demanded that all questions be submitted beforehand, and that the show consist of his prepared answers. Declining these terms, the newsmen insisted on the normal practice, i.e., that Molotov answer follow-up questions to clarify his answers to original questions. The reporters and the network pointed out that not even Secretary of State...
...midst of President Eisenhower's press conference last week, James Reston of the New York Times reached back into recent political history for a footnote on how Vice Presidents are made. "Could you recall for us, sir, what your role was in the selection of Mr. Nixon for Vice President?" Reston asked the President. "Was he ... your personal selection...