Word: stassen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aimless and frustrating year for the Senator. The Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, the National Labor Relations Board, the United States guided missile program, the Administration's farm policy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Milton Eisenhower and a cherished McCarthy enemy, Harold Stassen, all came in for their share of criticism, but somehow the public and the press failed to sit up and take notice as they had done only a few months before. With his committee chairmanship gone in the Democratic victory in 1954 McCarthy was just another minority member of the Senate Committee on Government Operations...
...same level are Deputy Assistants Fred Seaton, 46, and Howard Pyle, 49. Seaton, a Midwest newspaper publisher, served briefly as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska. A longtime Stassen supporter, he switched to Eisenhower early in 1952, was a trusted campaign adviser. He acts as the White House liaison man with Government agencies. Pyle, a onetime radio announcer, served two terms as governor of Arizona, was defeated in 1954. He now specializes in federal-state relations, e.g., highways and other projects involving grants...
...bipartisan matter, should be placed out of bounds to partisan political debate. Thus both President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon praised as an example of high statesmanship a recent plea by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George for a continued "nonpartisan American foreign policy." Republican Harold Stassen, returning from three weeks in Europe, wore a pained expression as he said that Stevenson's criticisms have "raised and stirred up question marks all over Europe." The Europeans, said Stassen, "have known that the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy is bipartisan. Therefore they are puzzled and perplexed by Mr. Stevenson...
...Stassen began his address by discussing his function as the special advisor to the President on disarmament. The important of a sound disarmament policy can not be underestimated, he said, for "the prevention of wars is the interest of every nation and requires the substitution of peaceful methods of settling disputes such as direct negotiation...
...believe that future historians will note," Stassen said, "that in these three years President Eisenhower changed a deteriorating world situation into a world that turned its attention to prospects of 'atoms for peace' and gradually moved to resolve its dangerous divisions...