Word: might
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solve the canal question by offering to annex Panama to the U.S.? Panama is already thoroughly gringoized. Offer Panama commonwealth status, its inhabitants American citizenship, its industry the American market. In time, along with Puerto Rico, it might be made a state. The two working together could preserve their Spanish heritage...
...doing cleared the path for Vice President Nixon. The half dozen rivals for the Democratic nomination at last had something in common: a lusty will to make Nixon their favorite target, and the Democratic prize probably would go to the man who could prove that he might beat him. The biggest day on the 1960 schedule would come in November when the U.S. would go to the polls to choose the President who would lead the U.S. into the fabulous promise of the early sixties...
...Last Chance. Dwight Eisenhower first ran for President with the idea that he might help bring the world closer to peace. In his first term he demonstrated in the Strait of Formosa that the U.S. would stand staunchly against aggression; he demonstrated in the Suez crisis that the U.S. would resist aggression by its friends as well as its enemies, that peace was meaningless without justice. In 1956, he decided to run for re-election despite two major illnesses and the possibility that a constitutional ban against a third term might dilute his effectiveness (in the event, the 22nd Amendment...
...might not the creative energy of freedom be used to seize the initiative? Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sought the answer in long, intensely personal talks (often a sleepless President picked up his bedside phone in the middle of the night to call a sleepless Dulles)?and the idea of Ike's exchanging visits with Khrushchev came up. "We began to work on this thing," Eisenhower recalled months later, "and I gave the subject to two or three of my trusted associates in the State Department and said, 'Now let's try to tote...