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...that we are trying to carry out what normal humans of good faith having some confidence in each other would do in accordance with the language of the Constitution . . . Now, I admit this: if a man were So deranged that he thought he was able, and the consensus is that he couldn't, there would have to be something else done, no question...
Response to the Administration's decision allowing seniors to live off campus next year has been Very light, according to a consensus of opinion gathered yesterday from the House Masters...
Groans on the Hill. Asked what he intended to do to carry out the reorganization of the Defense Department promised in his State of the Union message, Ike replied that nothing could be done until there is a "consensus" of Congress and service chiefs-an answer that was promptly interpreted in the Pentagon as backing down...
...economic front, the "consensus" of his economic advisers, he said, was that 1958 would produce "an upswing rather than a continuation of any downturn." But in case of a continued downturn he thought "a little needle" would be better than "a checkrein." Therefore, for fiscal 1959, some deficit spending "would be better than to start now the question of tax raising." But the Administration has no intention "at this moment" of proposing any kind of specific legislation to pep up the economy...
...Acknowledged that the "consensus of opinion" was that the U.S. lagged behind Russia "in some areas of long-range ballistic missile development" but with effort could have necessary missiles in quantity and in time (a considerable change in position from his post-Sputnik assertion that the first Russian satellite had not raised his apprehensions "one iota...