Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Madrid and Casablanca, where, as before, people by the hundreds of thousands welcomed him with remarkable affection and thunderous cheers. Home at last from his unprecedented 22,000-mile eleven-nation tour, he got a fond greeting from Mamie and from hundreds of Washingtonians carrying sputtering sparklers. But his work had only begun: Congress convenes next week; his State of the Union Message is due before the end of the month. Beyond that lie his budget message and his promised fight to preserve the budget balance. He must soon decide whether to extend the U.S. ban on nuclear testing, which...
...State John Foster Dulles sought the answer in long, intensely personal talks (often a sleepless President picked up his bedside phone in the middle of the night to call a sleepless Dulles)?and the idea of Ike's exchanging visits with Khrushchev came up. "We began to work on this thing," Eisenhower recalled months later, "and I gave the subject to two or three of my trusted associates in the State Department and said, 'Now let's try to tote up the balance...