Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President of the U.S. at his news conference, the U.S. could take only one "logical" stand: "We are not going to give one single inch in the preservation of our rights, and of discharging our responsibilities in this particular region, especially Berlin. There can be no negotiation on this particular point...
...What we need to say, as American people, and say in unmistakable terms, is that we are right.We must tell the Russians why we cannot surrender Berlin. Let us not talk about standing firm, and then in mushy, soft words say that on some basis-somewhere, somehow-we will do something other than stand fast...
...Goldwater's wing; most recollect powerfully his fondness for the right-to-work laws that lost in five out of six states last fall and carried many a Republican down with them.† If Goldwater, who won easily in Arizona, right-to-work and all, takes an uncompromising stand during the labor bill debates, liberal Republicans may desert him not so much to affect Senate voting as to remind labor before 1960 that the G.O.P. has a friendly profile...
...seriously argue that the West could purchase a settlement by a complicated web of mutual concessions. Just as Stalin by his insensate aggressiveness sparked NATO and the Marshall Plan, so Khrushchev had forced the West to recognize that the Berlin crisis would continue until a stout and resolute Western stand made it plain that he could not have his way in Germany. At the same time Khrushchev had made it easier for Western leaders to take the tough stand. Until last week, the crisis seemed to be a problem that agitated the professionals more than it bothered ordinary citizens...
WASHINGTON, March 6--The four men who lead Congress met for 90 minutes with President Eisenhower today and promptly proclaimed bipartisan backing of his firm stand against Red threats to Berlin...