Word: retrogressions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican nomination for President in 1944. He badly wanted to be Taft's vicepresidential running mate in 1952. Now he is happy where he is, and has a deep sense of fulfillment. "Life," he muses, "is a matter of development or decay. You either grow or you retrogress. There's no standing still. You go backward or forward. The challenge will make you grow, if you are willing to assert a leadership and look on the challenge as something to be met and disposed of." Dirksen looks upon Election Year 1962 as another one of those challenges...
...businesses in the correct assumption that through the international connections of Jewry the hostile campaign in foreign countries will cease only when German Jewry is economically endangered . . . But this is not the solution to the Jewish problem . . . As soon as Jewish immigration is cut off, Jewry in Germany will retrogress. The number of children in Jewish families is small. The process of dying out will proceed surprisingly fast...