Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...declared flatly that "there isn't any question but that we will defend Guantánamo [the U.S. Navy base in Cuba] if it is attacked." Kennedy's riposte: "We have almost ignored the needs of Latin America; we have beamed not a single Voice of America program in Spanish to all of Latin America in the last eight years except for the months of the Hungarian revolution...
Soft Sell & Hard Hit. The hardshell Conservative who had angrily denounced the Rockefeller-Nixon truce before Chicago as a "Munich," now calmly ignores the liberal program built into the G.O.P. platform. The Republican platform is, he says, the lesser of two evils. He hard-hits Lyndon Johnson as "the forgotten candidate." He writes off Jack Kennedy with sarcasm: "Sometimes I wonder how Jack gets that sailboat back to harbor...
...third term, stressing his seniority and experience and the Nixon-Lodge capability for "handling the Russians." He has repudiated Ezra Benson. McGovern, a deceptively soft-talking former history professor (and World War II 6-24 pilot with D.F.C., the air medal and three oakleaf clusters), offers his own farm program, attacks Mundt for his position on rural electrification, and even reminds him of his vote against the fortification of Guam before Pearl Harbor. Methodist McGovern's early edge has washed away in the religion reaction against Kennedy. It will be close...
...experts from any effective role in the decision process." Command of the armed services goes by default to "a combination of short-tenure appointed civilian secretaries supported by permanent, professionally unprepared, civil service civilians." (Medaris' extravagant exception: Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, a staunch defender of the Army missile program, "one of the best, if not the best Secretary of the Army ever...
Though Quadros' campaign pitch curved left and right to suit his audience, he can be expected to follow his own straight line of Brazil-style conservatism. He is committed to continue outgoing President Juscelino Kubitschek's building program, but he intends to hobble inflation. "If inflation could create wealth, there would be no more economic problems." he says. The question is whether he can impose his strong will on Brazil, which has become accustomed to Kubitschek's free-spending, money-printing ways. São Paulo city and São Paulo state were both small enough...