Word: trusted
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...role that combined old memories with new trust, the President carried a special strength for NATO. Stopping off at Bonn, he said that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer symbolized "freedom," and at once Adenauer was unchallengeable in West Germany. He went on TV with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see The Presidency), gave an undeniable push to Macmillan's reelection. The President and France's President Charles de Gaulle clasped hands as men of honor, and NATO's recent rifts were forgotten; De Gaulle later messaged the President: "I very much hope to be able...
Above all, last week, the President directed the new-found Western trust into his quest for relaxation of tensions with the Soviet Union. It was perhaps his most hazardous mission. Sometimes that quest sounded unclearly: "People want peace so much," said President Eisenhower on TV in London, "that governments had better get out of their way and let'em have it." More often the President emphasized that he was questing for peace based on principle and sure strength...
...that had been conquered by the U.S. First Army. But in old foe Germany, as in old ally Britain, the crowds made plain their confidence in Dwight Eisenhower as the free-world leader best qualified to quest for peace based upon strength and principle. Everywhere, the banners proclaimed, WE TRUST YOU and WE RELY...
...nearly stalled federal-state highway program fueled up again was a "step in the right direction," said Ike (he had urged a 1½ increase), but he objected to the proposal to channel about half the revenue from federal taxes on automobiles and parts into the highway trust fund. Transferring that revenue, argued Ike. ''would only shift the fiscal problem from the highway fund to the general fund, which is already in precarious balance...
...PUBLIC. No previous postwar steel shutdown has been met with such public apathy. But there are warnings that may soon jolt that apathy. Said Chief Economist Beryl W. Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank: "By Oct. 1, the strike will be a significant depressant on business. If both sides do not reach an accord by then, the Government will have to step in." Last week the Administration repeated that it had no intention of stepping in. The strongest public pressure for a settlement came from 100 steelworkers' wives who, with a bow to the women...