Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...conscious of Ike as of a close member of their family. His health, in fact, is one of their primary concerns. His travels are the anvil on which their personal lives are bent and twisted. They learn to remember key dates in his life better than he does. Except for Richard Nixon's kitchen debate with Khrushchev and the tremendously moving Warsaw crowd that greeted Nixon, all of my most vivid Washington bureau memories, I realized, were associated with Eisenhower. And of those, the two most vivid involve a dinner at the White House and the tenth...
...sign-off on every show suggests a provocative philosophy of labor's role: "Take it easy, fellas-but take it." While John Swainson is the darling of the union-hall speakers' circuit, Paul Bagwell's many requests to address union locals have been turned down cold-except twice. One time, Bagwell was permitted to speak for 15 minutes, and then the local leader delivered a 30-minute rebuttal...
...felt required to stand up and be counted, either for or against the U.S. John Foster Dulles, then Secretary of State, condemned "the principle of neutrality [which] pretends that a nation can best gain safety for itself by being indifferent to the fate of others." Such neutralism, warned Dulles, "except under very exceptional circumstances, is an immoral and shortsighted conception...
...neutrals form a U.N. majority of the center, but a negative one, having little in common except neutrality. Some, like Togo, Gabon and Congo, are just emerging from the jungle. Others, like India and Thailand and Burma, feel themselves heirs to ancient civilizations. Sweden and Nor way are welfare states with highly developed technologies, while Afghanistan and Nepal have only begun to brush aside the mists of feudalism. Secretary of State Christian Herter recently, and unnecessarily, abandoned Ghana and Guinea to the Communist camp. Nikita Khrushchev sneers at the Philippines and Argentina as U.S. puppets...
...wife has no place in the political arena, and I repudiate all those who have used it on my behalf. But just to set the record straight I would like to point out that my wife buys most of her clothes off the racks of budget-priced stores, except for an occasional dress at Elizabeth Arden, a good American establishment patronized by the wife of our beloved President whose administration it has been my honor to run. If elected First Lady my wife would of course continue to shop as she does...