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Your footnote, which states that "the U.S. is the world's only major industrial country without some form of national medical insurance for the aged," completely disregards the fact that under the present medical system our mortality rates are the lowest, our longevity the longest, and our public health the finest of any of these "socialized" countries. Thank goodness our President had the courage to speak out as being "utterly opposed" to any compulsory insurance program...
...cited: attempting to teach The Catcher in the Rye. But before I had a chance to teach the book even one day, Principal (of Male High School) W. S. Milburn, also president of the Louisville board of aldermen and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature, banned the book-without reading it. I protested in vain. Indeed, it was the unheard-of defiance in protesting such a dictum that led to my dismissal...
...thus admitted the first U.S. lie), and justified the U-2 program on the basis of the fear of surprise attack. Then, because Khrushchev himself had publicly seemed to exonerate President Eisenhower of blame, they went along with the diplomatic game by stating that the flight had been made without the knowledge of authorities in Washington...
...military had no part in the U-2 program). Actually, the U-2 program died the very day Pilot Powers was shot down. As an intelligence-gathering instrument, the flights had been compromised by discovery, and CIA Director Allen Dulles, the man in charge, had canceled the program without a moment's hesitation...
Vital Negotiations. "We handed Khrushchev the crowbar and sledge hammer to wreck this meeting," said he, in an angry speech in Chicago. "Without our series of blunders, Mr. Khrushchev would not have the pretext for making his impossible demand and his wild charges." Stevenson suggested that the Democrats could best negotiate with the Russians. "The Administration has acutely embarrassed our allies and endangered our bases," said he. "They have helped make successful negotiations with the Russians-negotiations that are vital to our survival-impossible so long as they are in power. We cannot sweep this whole sorry mess under...