Word: stassen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the busy agenda that the Congress will face, one of the biggest items of debate will be disarmament policy. The normal forums for such discussions are the State Department, the White House, and the National Security Council. The big Texan with the big ideas, however, forcefully pulled the Stassen-Dulles feud into the Congressional repertoire. Calling for peace waged at the conference table, Johnson, who invited "all men of all nations" to its chairs, outbid the President. Eisen-hower simply held the door open to talks, but required credentials of good faith for those who want to pass...
...Harold Stassen, if he does nothing else in a political career singular for its proportion of frustration, will at least have forced one of the most important policy decisions of this Administration. Sometime this week, as a result of his disagreements with Secretary Dulles, Stassen will be able to present his views on disarmament to the National Security Council...
Unfortunately, Stassen has very few concrete proposals to counter the "sit-tight" attitude of his chief antagonist. The President, himself, is looking for something as spectacular as his "open-skies" or atoms-for-peace plans with which to counter Premier Bulganin's pre-NATO-Conference call for a summit meeting. Unless Stassen can come up with a suitably electrifying proposal, he will find it well-nigh impossible to break through the Administration's massive complacency...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--A showdown is expected in the National Security Council this week between Secretary of State Dulles and Harold E. Stassen on future U.S. disarmament policy. It may come tomorrow...
...Stassen, President Eisenhower's chief disarmament adviser and negotiator, has proposed "liberalizing" the policy. His chief recommendation was reported to be that the United States drop its insistence on halting atomic bomb production as part of a two-year ban on nuclear testing...