Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the presidential campaign of 1956, in the area of domestic policy both parties will undoubtedly support with every evidence of enthusiasm a federal school aid program, a federal highway program, expended social security, further slum clearance, a balanced budget, adequate military defense, the wise development of our natural resources, civil rights, and improved assistance for our farmers. They will disagree at least, only on the magnitude of these programs, the speed with which they are implemented, and the manner of their administration...
...Democrats will be denounced as radical New Dealers who favor an overbearing federal government and creeping socialism. Their proposals for a $1.10 minimum wage, increases in social security, and expanded slum clearance will be described as starry-eyed Utopianisms, derived from Marx or worse. Their candidates will be labeled "soft on communism...
...Republicans will not get off much easier. It will be said that they are reactionary successors to Herbert Hoover and may lead us into another Great Depression. Proposals for a $.90 minimum wage, more moderate increases in social security, and more limited public housing will be characterized as timid, reactionary, and dictated by big-business interests...
...broad view, Democrats can take pride in the extent to which the ideas have now been generally accepted. Instead of an effort to reverse the direction of New Deal legislation in such fields as social security, minimum wages, and the like, the Republicans have agreed to modest extensions in several areas. Social security coverage and benefits have been expanded. The minimum wage rate has been increased. Support for public housing as well as mortgage insurance has continued...
...them, however, emphasize the mature consideration of ideas. As a tool for developing this mature consideration, whether at Oxford or in Palo Alto, nothing has proven more fruitful than the writing of papers. In this light, it is disgraceful that a student of the humanities or the social sciences can go through a complete college year without writing more than two or three course papers...