Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...while, the Trib has continued to cover Chicagoland better than any of its competitors and has untiringly followed the colonel's command to "furnish that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide." No scent of corruption goes unchallenged by the paper's hard-toothed bloodhounds...
...faults are those that his countrymen can share and understand, and in his virtues he is more than anything else a repository of traditional U.S. values derived from his boyhood in Abilene, Kans., instilled in him by his fundamentalist parents, drilled into him at West Point, tempered by wartime command, applied to the awesome job of the presidency and expanded to meet the challenges of the cold...
...Personal. To prepare for the confrontation with his tough, clever cold-war adversary, Eisenhower flew to Europe in late August, there to consult and coordinate plans with U.S. allies. In Germany, the land overrun by his Allied armies, in England, the country from which he had launched his vast command upon Europe, and in Paris, the city he had liberated, the swell of popular emotion brought a mist to an old soldier's eyes. The tribute was more than personal. When Ike left Europe, he knew that it was in his capacity as the President...
...Command Decision." Stunned Democrats were slow to react. For the first time in Washington memory, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey was speechless. California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown soon weighed in with a statement that "the conservatives are in complete charge." Adlai Stevenson lamented that Rocky's decision had left everything to Vice President Nixon: "Whether he is to be the new Nixon or the old Nixon, he remains the same Nixon." Stevenson praised Rockefeller as a "forward-looking liberal." It was clear that as far as the Democrats were concerned, nothing became Rocky's candidacy...
Rockefeller himself headed for his wife's family home in a Main Line Philadelphia suburb, grinningly refusing to expand on his "command decision." Why had he done it? One possible reason was that the latest batch of polls from New Hampshire showed him running a dismal 15% to Nixon's 75%, with the rest of the vote scattered over other candidates. Also, he was about to head into a new session with his state legislature, and some upstate Republicans, solid for Nixon, had threatened to give Rockefeller embarrassing trouble at home (adding to the circumstance that Tom Dewey...