Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who had been the target lately of some salvos fired by Columnist Drew Pearson. When Argentina's Juan Perón sent along a medal for General Vaughan, "a brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute Man of 1949." Everyone clapped...
...necessary." Acheson felt that this compromise was forthright enough to reassure Western Europeans, while worded properly to reassure Senators, who didn't want to surrender their Constitutional right to declare war. Norway was all set to climb aboard. Even Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen, who thought the U.S. was trying to hustle him through the gate, indicated that the Danes might be willing to step aboard now of their own volition...
Wallace explained why he thought EGA was a weapon of U.S. imperialism, and a failure to boot. After Wallace read his ten-page attack on U.S. policy, committee members had their innings. Sample dialogue...
...gave the defense two more days to wind up its challenge, announced that he would tolerate no oral arguments after that, and made it plain that he would overrule the defense unless it changed his mind in the meantime-an eventuality he obviously did not anticipate. Said he: "I thought at one time that perhaps the defense had something...
...present disturbed condition in the world, any normal question by a reporter arouses suspicion among lower officials of any government. I was stepping on somebody's toes [in Moscow]. I was making officials mad, [though] I thought I was doing them a favor. All countries have stupid officials and prosecutors who, once they have decided against you, go out to get their...