Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Underlining nuclear power's international promise, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss stressed that U.S. and British scientists have been working in ''close cooperation" on controlled thermonuclear reactions, and will continue to do so. Added President Eisenhower next day, in a statement aimed toward Russia: "All Americans sincerely hope that other scientists in other countries will be encouraged by their governments to do similar research. As these and other experiments continue, the adoption of a worldwide atoms-for-peace program becomes more inevitable to permit all scientists to devote their skills and energies to the betterment of mankind...
...Lyndon Johnson last week had two prime items to lay before the public. One was the appearance of General Lucius Dubignon Clay, veteran Army engineer, onetime (1947-49) military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, and longtime close friend of Dwight Eisenhower. The other was a lengthy interim statement written by Senator Johnson and approved by his colleagues that carefully summed up the U.S. defense picture as the committee had found it in 110 days of study...
Simple Questions. As the committee gathered in closed session, Texan Johnson pulled out of his pocket his proposed interim statement, already drafted. There he argued not with Republican members, but with Missouri's presidency-bound Democrat Stuart Symington, who nagged insistently for a hard-swinging attack on the Administration for its defense shortcomings. At length, Johnson (well aware that his own committee was no more anxious than the Administration for defense spending in the last "economy" session of Congress) carried the day-and happily so, for his report was both accurate and constructive...
...State of the Union message, the President had set himself a tight schedule by promising that he would have reorganization proposals ready for this session of Congress, then appeared to back down in his press conference. Taken aback by the impression of relaxation read into his press-conference statement, the President said in his G.O.P. speech in Chicago last week: "In this I intend to participate personally until the job is done." Three specific reform proposals have already reached his desk: 1) streamline McElroy 's own personal Defense Secretary operation, 2 *) give McElroy power to shift funds between services...
...Masters stated that no set criteria other than the stipulations set forth in Dean Watson's statement would be used to judge the applicants' reasons for leaving the House. Watson said that to move out a student must secure the approval of his Master and of his parents...