Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debate calendar: Saturday. The Democratic Advisory Council-including Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson-put out a razor-sharp statement that the U.S. ought to turn over the Quemoy-Matsu crisis to the U.N., ought to have a plebiscite in Formosa (no mention of the same thing for Red China), also slashed at "world-ambulating" Secretary of State Dulles for dragging the U.S. to "the brink of having to fight a nuclear war." The Advisory Council's added point (later opposed by Harry Truman): although there may be dangerous times when an opposition ought to keep quiet, the Quemoy...
Tuesday. None other than Secretary of State Dulles, at his press conference, got up to criticize Dick Nixon. Said Dulles, "I do not think it wise that current aspects of foreign policy should be injected in the campaign." Dulles added specifically that Nixon's Chicago statement "might fit without the limits which I hope both sides would observe." Later Dulles phoned Nixon to explain that he had not meant to be critical, next day put out a confusing statement that Nixon was only replying to Democratic criticisms and "in those circumstances I fully concurred in the need for that...
Wednesday. First off at his press conference, President Eisenhower was taxed with Nixon's Chicago statement, admitted right away that "I haven't even read it." Then Ike spoke sharp sentences in which he seemed to turn his back on his own party's campaign. "I do subscribe to this theory: foreign policy ought to be kept out of partisan debate . . . I realize that when someone makes a charge another individual is going to reply. I deplore that. They have made the charges about me. I will not answer, do not expect to. So I believe...
Thursday. There was consternation at the White House that spread through official Washington. Said one Administration hand: "Dick is so tired he must be punch-drunk." Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty got Nixon on the phone, agreed with Nixon that a statement of clarification ought to be put out. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn dropped by at the White House to see the President. Then the President sent Nixon a wire noting that 1) although basic foreign policies ought to be bipartisan, 2) it was perfectly O.K. to reply to the Democrats on foreign policy's "operation." Said...
...hour before), nor appealed for votes for Republican Congressmen, nor even said a ringing word on behalf of Iowa's G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate William G. Murray, Iowa State University agriculture-economics professor, who stands an outside chance against lackluster Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless. Instead, Ike threw in a statement from hastily jotted notes on foreign policy: "You cannot bargain or negotiate in a world that is torn by dissension except from a position of strength." That stirred interest. But in general, Ike's reception was unenthusiastic...