Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepared a memo that is the backbone of the new doctrine. Wrote Bonesteel: "Continued primary reliance on massive nuclear retaliation to deter all forms of aggression will limit the United States' strategy to a choice between retreat or acceptance of the probability of mutual destruction of the United States and the U.S.S.R." Because of the nuclear impasse, wrote Bonesteel, the U.S. non-nuclear forces must be made stronger to allow for the "probability that future Communist military aggressions will involve armed conflict designed to seize control of, rather...
What does Dwight Eisenhower think of the Kennedy Administration? After an hour-long chat with the ex-President at his Palm Springs retreat, South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt thought he had the answer. Ike had criticized the new Administration, Mundt reported in his weekly newsletter to constituents, as "too much left of center; too partisan; too slanted toward programs supported by union bossism." The Mundt report produced a thunderclap from Palm Springs. Said Eisenhower: "Senator Mundt's statement . . . does not accurately describe my views on public affairs . . . and I very much regret its issuance. The Senator evidently...
...Attack & Retreat. Burned at his own game, Roberts took to poking at Maxine in print as "my afternoon femmitation." used his wife's byline in "memos" to himself that scorned "the newcomer to news ranks," who was "running around like she's just misplaced Rock Hudson." Maxine kept a disdainful public silence. "I'm like the fellow who was kicked by the mule," she said in private. "I just consider the source and forget...
...alive with the ring of telephones and crowded with visitors. In the clinic's driveway, diplomatic limousines came and went. On his orders, diplomats scurried on a triangular course running from Zurich to Paris to Tunis and back. Early this week Bourguiba is scheduled to leave his hospital retreat and journey to rural Rambouillet, outside Paris, for a meeting with France's Charles de Gaulle...
...pity," he sighed, as he saw the ramshackle remains of the 60-foot tower. "This is such a lovely place." Within weeks, workmen began restoring the 500-year-old structure, which will be equipped with an elevator for what insiders said would become the Pontiff's summer retreat for meditation and for private audiences with relatives and intimates...