Word: years
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward the public: instead of rallying the people to an awareness of problems and to a willingness to make sacrifices for their solution, the Administration chooses to act and speak as if all were well with the nation and the world. Eisenhower may get away cheaply in the remaining year of his term, but the issues he has ignored will return to plague his successor, just as the fragile house of Coolidge prosperity crashed down on Herbert Hoover's head...
...session that convenes this week. Reason: he plans no brand-new programs, no departures from the basics he stressed in earlier sessions - balance the budget, fight inflation, uphold foreign aid, resist crash programs. He has decided to hold the line on the domestic front while concentrating, in his final year in the presidency, on one paramount undertaking: the quest for peace. The President's single-minded objective this year, say White House aides, is to make solid progress toward thawing cold-war tensions and building world peace...
Conciliatory Mood. The President's concentration on the peace issue seemed to mean that, despite their lopsided majorities in Congress, the Democrats would again, as they did last year, find it difficult to get hold of a big, politically rewarding issue. There is little the opposition party can do to change the fact that the voter-stirring issues of 1960 lie in such policy realms as foreign relations, defense and space, where initiative and control belong to the executive branch. Congress may criticize the President's policies and performances in those realms, may even vote more money than...
...with the Democratic majorities in Congress. Despite the 116-day steel strike that was halted only by an 80-day Taft-Hartley in junction (due to run out late this month), the President had not decided on the need for additional labor legislation. Even with the $7 billion-a-year farm scandal confronting him as a conspicuous failure of his Administration, Ike was not planning to offer any bold new program for coping with it. "Let the Democrats come forward with something better than we've got," he says, "and believe me, we'll listen to them." Since...
...boost in social security benefits (a standard election-year ritual) plus an old-age medical-insurance program; the Administration opposes the insurance program on principle as a needless extension of federal intervention...