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Next morning, in a snappy tweed sport jacket and slacks, the President attended a plenary session of the conference, where he delivered a meandering, off-the-cuff address, which was at its best when he shared with the governors his strategic theories on Asia (see Foreign Relations). But Ike's effectiveness at Seattle was not in what he said; it was in his hearty salutation and his deep bow of respect to the governors...
Unhappy ROKs. Despite this bristling and ambiguous language, the U.N. Command was "very encouraged." Outside the tent, South Korean newsmen could not conceal their unhappiness at the U.N. concessions. Their argument: that the agreement is an open invitation to let the Reds cuff South Korea about at will, while the U.N. withholds aid of all kinds; the ROKs could suffer huge losses just on the say-so of the Reds that they had been attacked first, and the harm done before the neutral commission could decide the issue...
Johnson, who likes to wear $190 tailor-made suits and takes pride in his gold, diamond-studded cuff links shaped like the map of Texas, abhors formal dress. Recently, when he was dressing for the Gridiron Club dinner, he found to his horror that neither he nor his wife could get his white tie tied properly. In a typical Johnson solution, he telephoned his old Texas friend, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, and rushed two miles to Clark's home to have the Justice...
...minded critics were afraid he had not cut far enough, and defense-minded critics feared that the results of his cuts might impair U.S. security. But any who thought Dwight Eisenhower had lost his sense of balance between the two logics had not listened to his short, off-the-cuff speech at midweek to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Said he: "These [defense-security] costs are going to be lowered at the earliest possible moment. But they are never going to be lowered beyond that point that you can, with justification, say: 'I shall sleep well tonight because...
...JIMMY BYRNES "spoke freely and ... off the cuff, but was not always legalistically precise. Molotov sought repeatedly to draw him out . . . 'What precisely was it that he proposed?' 'Would he restate the case so as to clarify it?' Molotov . . . hoped that by evoking statements and restatements that were extemporaneous, he might bring about a misstatement upon which he could seize...