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Under the Statute. "Is this one of those things that men can think about but cannot get?" Answering his own question, Nixon invoked the words of the late U.S. Senator Robert Taft: "I do not see how we can hope to secure permanent peace in the world except by establishing law between nations and equal justice under law." The process would need no sweeping new charter said Nixon; the International Court of Justice is already established at The Hague and needs only to be used to be effective. "It would be foolish to suppose that litigation before the court...
Pretty Political? After a general gasp came a lively babble. Said Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks: "Swell idea. It's a knockout." Chimed Agriculture's Ezra Taft Benson: "I'm no politician. But I think it's a great idea." Finally the President got a word in. "By golly, I like that idea. But it's pretty political, isn't it, Meade?" Replied Alcorn: "And how! Mr. President. But it's good politics, and will be good for the country...
...junior Senator in 1956. Husky (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Thruston Morton, seventh-generation Kentuckian, is no politician-come-lately. He served three House terms (entered as a freshman with Congressman Richard Nixon). In 1952 he was the lone Eisenhower supporter in Kentucky's 20-man Taft-minded convention delegation. Later he became Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, got to know Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who has been forced by congressional attitudes into taking half-a-loaf measures toward ending the farm scandal (result: a staggering $7 billion for farm programs this fiscal year), was swift to seize on the Farm Journal survey. Said Benson, speaking to 2,300 farmers gathered for Farm and Home Week at Cornell University: "Farmers recognize that the old basic-crop legislation is outmoded. It has placed ineffective bureaucratic controls on farmers, destroyed markets, piled up surpluses, and imposed heavy burdens on taxpayers . . . The voice of the American farmer calls in louder and louder tones...
...Bulldog," the results were more or less predictable. Frosh surged out of dormitories like beer from a sprung keg, and began pitching snowballs. Brawlers leaked over locked gates and through classroom buildings into the streets, made a token charge at that often-bloodied Manassas of Yale riots, the Hotel Taft...