Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly hated to leave. Invited back to California by Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, Dwight Eisenhower thought of the duties that face him for the rest of his term of office, said almost wistfully: "Maybe I will, after 15 months." But Ike had to get back to Washington. There was plenty...
Also awaiting the President upon his return to Washington was a pile of reports from U.S. officials who had had a chance to study closely Nikita Khrushchev's U.S. visit. The reports were surprisingly optimistic about Khrushchev's intentions-but it remained for the President to evaluate the facts that lay behind the optimism, and on his judgment could depend the course of international relationships for years to come...
...there were also some pleasant things coming before the President on his return to Washington. Although the U.S. remained discreetly silent about its preferences in the British elections, the President could hardly have been less than delighted at the sweeping victory of his old friend Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS). And perhaps the most satisfying event of the week was a visit from another friend of the U.S., Mexico's President López Mateos (see HEMISPHERE). Last year, after returning from his tempestuous visit to Latin America, Vice President Nixon recommended that the U.S. distinguish more clearly among...
...years later the U.S. is still running a poor second in the two-entry space race. And in high-level Washington last week, there still were no detectable signs of urgency about the U.S.'s space lag. The President, his advisers reported, was convinced that the U.S. space effort must be kept "within reason." Vice President Richard Nixon assured a press conference that the nation's space effort was "moving along at a reasonably good pace." Herbert F. York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, dismissed the Soviet lead in the space race...
...WASHINGTON, Oct. 16--George Catlett Marshall, who helped lead U.S. arms to victory in World War II and fathered the cold war Marshall Plan, died Friday after a long illness...