Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CIVIL RIGHTS. "In all our hopes and plans for a better world . . . provincial and racial prejudices must be corn-batted"; in all the U.S.'s history, the right to vote has been a pillar of freedom. Hence, said the President, the U.S.'s "first duty" is to protect the right to vote for all against "encroachment" and "bias...
Against that abhorrent spectacle, and the memories of Hungary and other Communist conquests, the U.S. example of liberty under law, of self-restraint imposed by what Jefferson called "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind," of willingness to use strength to protect independence stood out as powerful assets. Dwight Eisenhower had been shaped by those principles?and in 1959, carrying a message of peace with freedom to three far continents, he represented them to the world as could no one else...
...that a balanced budget in the long run is a vital part of national security." And again: "We not only have to be strong today but for 50 years, and if we become reckless in the economic field, we will no longer find ourselves with the means to protect ourselves...
...together their Outer Seven and the bigger Common Market Six. U.S. Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon returned from a European tour last month convinced that the U.S. would have to involve itself as a direct participant in consultation between the two developing trading groups, if only to protect its own trade interests. But Washington was not particularly interested in bridging or blending the two groups, in order that they might exchange special privileges that exclude the Americans. Instead, the U.S. itself wants in on any trading of special preferences...