Word: moose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Some time this month the President plans to make a speech defending his defense budget and answering Democratic charges that his program will lead to a dangerous missile gap in the 19603. At the President's order, the Pentagon has worked up more statistics and memoranda on U.S...
The thermometer hung at a sharp 20° at the rambling Eisenhower farm outside Gettysburg at 8:49 one morning last week as a helicopter from Washington touched down on the lawn. The passengers were Presidential Assistant Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons and Presidential Speechwriter Malcolm Moos. Their briefcase cargo: an...
At conference's end, as Speechwriter Moos headed back to Washington with a heavily marked sheaf of papers for revision, the President got set to deliver the speech to Congress this week in a setting dominated by the U.S.S.R.'s dramatic emphasis not on budget-balancing but on...
Among the Maryland delegates introduced to Candidate Dwight Eisenhower at the 1952 G.O.P. convention was Johns Hopkins University Professor Malcolm Moos. "Professor of what?" asked Ike, shaking hands. "Political science," responded bony (5 ft. 10 in., 130 Ibs.), "Mac" Moos. "Well," said Ike, "I am going to be one of...
...onetime Minnesota Republican state chairman who revered Teddy Roosevelt, Mac Moos, 42, lightly labels himself "a full-blooded Bull Moose Republican," is an energetic mixture of egghead author and practical politician. While writing a history of the Republican Party, he worked up to Republican Party chief in Baltimore, later helped out the White House speechwriting team on a part-time basis. In one sense, he has a running start on Eisenhower as far as the 1958 congressional campaign is concerned: the principal point of his Politics, Presidents and Coattails, published in 1952, was that a President cannot easily transfer...