Word: mays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good (or decent, or honest) man," or "we can trust him," or "he does his best." But Dwight Eisenhower is not that simply explained, and there are contradictions in his public image and private personality. Although he can tie words into knots ("I do say this: I may have, but I am not saying I didn't, but I don't believe I have. I do say this ..."), he has been vastly successful in making himself understood. His warm grin is known around the earth, but in private his temper can flare with crackling, barracks-room fluency. He seems boundlessly...
...Government, at all levels, has certain clear obligations to you and me," said he to a hostile audience. "It owes us security from external attack, protection of our person and property, protection in the exercise of all the individual rights guaranteed by our Constitution." Government may also help out "particular groups" with special aid or subsidy. But the reason for help or subsidy "is not to give one group of citizens special privilege or undeserved advantage. Rather it is to see that equality of opportunity is not withheld from the citizen through no fault of his own." The groups...
...made at a U.S.-sponsored meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers at Geneva. The U.S. was represented at that conference by a new Secretary of State, Christian Herter, for in February Foster Dulles, gallant warrior, entered Walter Reed Army Hospital with a recurrence of cancer. And on May 24, 1959, the colleague Ike had trusted beyond any other died in his sleep...