Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked at his Augusta news conference whether he thought that the U.S.'s longest nationwide steel strike proved the inadequacy of the Taft-Hartley law, President Eisenhower replied that he did not "think Taft-Hartley is necessarily any cure for this thing. If we can't settle our economic differences by truly free economic bargaining without damaging seriously . . . the United States, then we have come to a pretty pass...
...sort of multiplied effect on me." That is why, he said ironically, "I seek the warm weather and sun." He added that he had the flu before he went to California in October. "I called it flu. Whether the doctor did or not,*I don't think I ever asked him. Anytime I feel as badly as I did that time, I call...
...Chicago Tribune called him a "crypto-New Dealer," warned that his economic and social philosophy is "far closer to 'liberal' Democratic than to traditionally Republican doctrine." Less harsh, yet frankly skeptical, was the judgment of Cook County Republican Chairman Francis X. Connell: "I don't think he's changed anybody's mind on the question of the nominee for President." While he found Governor Rockefeller "completely disarming," said Connell, the organization is behind Nixon...
...time grows short, Adlai Stevenson may lose some nervous adherents. (Says San Antonio Lawyer Maury Maverick Jr.: "I think he'd be a terrific candidate, but if I had to decide between a going-Jesse of a Lyndon Johnson and a reluctant Adlai, I'd be for Lyndon.") But most of Stevenson's rank-and-file support is likely to stick with him right down to convention time. And many a veteran delegate pledged to another candidate will feel that urge to merge with Stevenson again at the convention if the going gets close...
...about Tibet's legal status, and therefore the U.N.'s right to intervene; he wants no embarrassing precedents set. On similar grounds, France regards Algeria and India considers Kashmir an internal affair. Krishna Menon expressed his nation's "distress" over events in Tibet but did not think "a warming up of issues" would help relax international tensions...