Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back a Better Man. Some observers ventured beyond such neutral ground, with cautious kudos for the presidential stance in the international batting box. The Vienna meeting, said the Boston Traveler, "has done much to raise American prestige abroad, to strengthen the Western Alliance, and probably to jolt Premier Khrushchev into a sober reassessment of our determination to defend freedom." Columnist Walter Lippmann, a man who has had two private audiences with Khrushchev and upholds the principle of "accommodation" in dealing with the Reds (TIME, Dec. 22, 1958), termed Vienna "significant and important because it marked the re-establishment of full...
...keeping with his own rules of political combat, the former President refrained from any criticism of his successor's foreign policy: "As the President attempts to preserve our freedoms, as he seeks to strengthen peace, as he confers with foreign leaders whether friendly or hostile, he has the hopeful and sympathetic good will of all loyal Americans, regardless of party . . . We cannot allow, today, the nation's basic unity of purpose to be in doubt." Without mentioning the Cuban fiasco, Ike had a wry reminder of the minority party's right to be informed: "Republicans rightly expect...
...Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd. Said he: "Our national concern for the plight of the Cubans . . . should have been evidenced by effective help on the beachhead to enable their just revolution to succeed. By paying Castro's price for a thousand good men, we give him the means to strengthen his enslavement of 6,000,000 others. The American people will, for the first time to my knowledge, be making use of ransom and tribute as an instrument of policy. If we start to pay tribute now for 1,000 of the one billion Communist hostages, where will it stop...
...suggested. The Dominican crisis, coming on the heels of the President's energetic response to Castro's tractor after, must not be allowed to damage what is left of U.S. prestige in Latin America; and reliance on the Organization of American States is not only good politics, but will strengthen a force for order and stability in the Caribbean...
...NATO, Kennedy pledged the U.S. to increase its capability to wage conventional war in Europe. He asked Canada to do the same. To strengthen NATO's atomic force, Kennedy again offered to give the command five Polaris submarines that would "make clear our own intentions and commitments...