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When Eisenhower became President and established himself as a symbol of national unity, all these conflicting interests converged upon him. They hoped he could use his popularity to push through their programs. Since every positive action he took was bound to offend someone, he faced the choice of trying to break these deadlocks or dodging them. And by deliberately choosing the second alternative, he failed to meet the most pressing domestic problems of the nation. There is such a thing as a President being too popular to be effective, and that was Eisenhower during his first year of office...
...amusing. I seriously doubt that "most of London enjoyed a good cry" over this "tearjerker." London in 1740 was a sophisticated town, and . . . Richardson must have known what he was doing when he wrote a bedroom farce in a manner so naive and pious as to offend nobody. Fielding's heavy-handed satire proves only that he was better as novelist than as critic ... so perhaps we should be grateful that he missed the point of Pamela's wary innocence. That he would in the end prefer a tedious trollop like Amber, I very much doubt...
Next came the French. Joseph Laniel, the husky, stolid Norman industrialist who governs precariously as France's 19th postwar Premier, slipped in like a silent bystander, unable to speak English, unwilling to say much anyway-lest it offend those back home who were considering him as a candidate for France's next President. At his side was pale, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. The two Frenchmen mistrust each other; in fact, through the 18-hour flight from Paris, the Premier spoke not a word to the Foreign Minister. Neither was sure he would even be in office...
...government hopes for an opening of Western markets and a new trade pact with Britain. Tuomioja's Cabinet could do most to help at home by paring down wages and prices, and curtailing social benefits which Finland cannot afford. But not even Tuomioja's conservatives dare offend both the Soviet Union and the Finnish trade unions, which are wedded to the welfare state. The new Premier announced: "We shall continue Finland's policy of friendship with all nations, especially with the Soviet Union...
...brother, she retorted that this would be "to confess to having been the King's harlot this 24 years." After Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church and married Anne Boleyn, Katherine instructed adolescent Mary: "[Obey] the King your father in everything, save only that you will not offend God and lose your own soul...