Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Nixon, out campaigning in San Francisco, flatly disagreed. His points: 1) U.S. foreign policy is a proper topic for U.S. debate, and 2) the Eisenhower-Dulles record is the G.O.P.'s great asset and great hope to turn back the Democratic tide. Nixon's argument: "A policy of firmness when dealing with the Communists is a peace policy. A policy of weakness is a war policy. This Administration has kept the peace without surrender of principle or territory...
Debate calendar: Saturday. The Democratic Advisory Council-including Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson-put out a razor-sharp statement that the U.S. ought to turn over the Quemoy-Matsu crisis to the U.N., ought to have a plebiscite in Formosa (no mention of the same thing for Red China), also slashed at "world-ambulating" Secretary of State Dulles for dragging the U.S. to "the brink of having to fight a nuclear war." The Advisory Council's added point (later opposed by Harry Truman): although there may be dangerous times when an opposition ought to keep quiet, the Quemoy...
Wednesday. First off at his press conference, President Eisenhower was taxed with Nixon's Chicago statement, admitted right away that "I haven't even read it." Then Ike spoke sharp sentences in which he seemed to turn his back on his own party's campaign. "I do subscribe to this theory: foreign policy ought to be kept out of partisan debate . . . I realize that when someone makes a charge another individual is going to reply. I deplore that. They have made the charges about me. I will not answer, do not expect to. So I believe...
...have to be in Flint by 9-there's a real good shopping center there. Then we may get home by 11 and that will give me a couple of hours to catch up on paper work so I can get to bed by I -always like to turn in by 1. Then I won't have anything to do until 7 in the morning. I want to be at the Buick plant then...
...stairs late, Mr. Hunter," a Globe photographer said, "wiping your head with your handkerchief? Oh, you don't have a handkerchief. Here, use mine. Now running up smiling and looking late please. That's fine. Now would you do it again, please. Just in case the pic doesn't turn...