Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thimmesch made the rounds in Upper Michigan's Hiawatha National Forest; Denver Bureau Chief Barren Beshoar headed into the San Juan Mountains for three days; Albuquerque Correspondent Arch Napier trekked through New Mexico's Carson National Forest. In Washington, Bureau Chief John L. Steele mopped his brow, thought warmly of his colleagues in the cool forests, and with Chief Forester Richard E. McArdle summed up the purpose of McArdle's far-reaching domain (see map). It's the same as it was when Teddy Roosevelt created the forest service in 1905: "For the greatest good...
...President's goal, as Democrats found out in reading the mail from their constituents, proved to be astonishingly popular. In doing what he thought best for the nation's economic health, Dwight Eisenhower apparently was giving the people just what they wanted...
...Finished." Clearly, Ike had been giving some deep thought to his role as the first President to be limited (by the 22nd Amendment) to two terms of office. And he seemed, in a way, to be trying to lay down a code of conduct for second-term Presidents who would follow him in office. "I'm not thinking so much of public images as I am the public good," he said in response to another question. "I call your attention again [to the fact] that I cannot be running for anything. I am finished with public life when...
...sharp crack of political rifle fire spanged through Washington again last week as Democrats picked off Democrats up the length of Pennsylvania Avenue. The sniping at Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and his cautious tactics in Congress had been going on for months, but seasoned observers thought they detected a new note in last week's skirmishing: General Johnson and his moderate image of the Democratic Party were winning new and unexpected recruits, were in their strongest position to date. The liberal flank was being turned...
Secretary Herter, so busy with his own Geneva that he can give little thought to the test-ban conference, listened attentively but made no promises...