Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constitutional powers to be most capable of providing leadership. In two firm, decisive moves, the President stepped forward and provided just that. Last week, he went before a Democratic-controlled Congress and delivered a State of the Union message that marked not the least attempt to shrug off blame for past letdowns, spoke candidly but without hand-wringing about the present, mapped a hard line for future progress. This week he sent off a letter to the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Bulganin, thus stepped into a world scene that had become a mishmash of creeping neutralism and phony Communist peace...
...that turned out to be one of the week's cheerier messages to Dwight Eisenhower. At home, retired Defense Chief Charlie Wilson declared to New York Herald Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Robert J. Donovan (who wrote the authorized account, Eisenhower-The Inside Story) that Ike himself was to blame if this fiscal year's defense budget was really cut too deeply. New York's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler sniped at "government by regency" and suggested that the President, if ailing, should retire. White House newsmen began pointing up the fact that Ike had not faced a press...
...would make the mountaintops rock. The superfluous always howl when their milk is cut off. For the academic year of 1957-58, the education department of the University of Texas lists 351 courses. They are all to make teachers more banal-minded. God pity your pupils; don't blame them for not being educated. What a teacher needs, aside from having sense and character, is basic knowledge in history, science, languages, literature, the fundamentals. All a would-be teacher gets out of education is palaver...
...already shown that a welfare fund can save thousands of dollars simply by smarter management, e.g., competitive bidding on health-insurance contracts. Corporations have also been at fault. Vice President Frank B. Cliffe, of H. J. Heinz Co. and pension expert for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, lays heavy blame for abuses in jointly run welfare plans on neglect by management, which "thought its obligations ended with the payment of its contributions...
...himself to political attack, the President took special pains to strengthen a seriously weakened position without over-extending himself, as Johnson may have done. The President did not, however, neutralize himself, as he frequently has in the past. While not taking a partisan approach, he assumed some of the blame for under-estimating the psychological significance of the Sputnik, and he at least recognized the existence of the dispute over inter-service rivalry. Because he did not make a mea culpa statement of reform and renewed good intentions, he left a large measure of the blame unplaced. As a result...