Word: statement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days after he forcefully spelled out this rigid code at his press conference, the President of the U.S. stepped soberly before 257 newsmen with a sheaf of 5-in.-by-7-in. cards in his hands. On the cards was typed, in extra big size, a new statement. As he read, licking a finger now and then to dislodge the cards from the stack, the President boomed the words out in bass tones. "The intense publicity lately surrounding the name of Sherman Adams makes it desirable, even necessary, that I start this conference with an expression of my own views...
...only public statement I can recall making on this subject in recent years was in the course of one of the Reith Lectures, delivered last fall in London over the BBC. Here I said: "... I would not wish to say that there is never a time for summit meetings. There is a time for almost everything in the strange world of diplomacy. But surely, if the usefulness of these senior figures is to be protected and the raising of false hopes avoided, such meetings should occur, if at all, at the end of the negotiating process, and for the purpose...
...shall be asked on Judgment Day" when the House investigators introduced into evidence photostatic copies of Adams' paid-up hotel bills. He secretly slipped into Boston for a three-hour lunch with Old Friend Bernie Goldfine. Then he flew back to Washington to draw up a 766-word statement to the House subcommittee, sent it to the President, who, Press Secretary Hagerty announced, "thinks that these are the full facts...
Hollow Stand. After handing out the Adams statement, Press Secretary Hagerty fought doggedly through two press conferences to defend Adams before a White House press corps in full cry. Hagerty hewed hard to the line laid down by Adams: no influence was exerted, so the hotel hospitality was a matter of personal and private friendship...
...last name") who hit pay dirt in Jonesboro, simply by taking on Orval Faubus in a tough, plain-talking speech. "The real reason why Orval Faubus occupied a local unit of government with armed troops," said Candidate Ward, "was revealed when he made substantially this statement: 'I have got to use the National Guard at Central High School to ensure my election to a third term as Governor.' And there you have the whole integration issue in one sentence. This fence-straddling, pussyfooting demagogue has humiliated Little Rock and the State of Arkansas before the world...