 | John D. Skrentny - 1996 - 332 pages
...United States as a leader in the Cold War. President Eisenhower told a national television audience, At a time when we face grave situations abroad because...that is being done to the prestige, and influence ... of our nation . . . Our enemies are gloating over this incident, and using it everywhere to misrepresent... | |
 | James A. Morone - 1998 - 426 pages
...institutional maintenance, Eisenhower explained the "tremendous disservice that has been done in Arkansas." At a time when we face grave situations abroad because...that is being done to the prestige, and influence ... of our nation. . . . Our enemies are gloating over this incident, and using it everywhere to misrepresent... | |
 | Kenneth Hilton - 1999 - 138 pages
...President Eisenhower addressed the nation on radio and television. This is an excerpt from that speech. At a time when we face grave situations abroad because...harm that is being done to the prestige and influence ... of our nation. We are portrayed [by the Communists] as a violator of those standards of conduct... | |
 | Gretchen Cassel Eick - 2001 - 356 pages
...allegiance of do2ens of newly independent "colored" nations. As the president told the New York Times, "[l]t would be difficult to exaggerate the harm that is...indeed, to the safety of our nation and the world [by the situation in Little Rock] . Our enemies are gloating over this incident and using it everywhere... | |
 | Thomas BORSTELMANN - 2009 - 385 pages
...this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent the whole nation." Above all, he regretted how "it would be difficult to exaggerate the harm that is being done to the prestige and influence" of the United States abroad. For Eisenhower, white racial violence appeared to remain a strictly political... | |
 | Charles W. Calhoun - 2003 - 364 pages
...also added another concern about the chaos in Little Rock: "At a time when we face a grave situation abroad because of the hatred that communism bears...influence, and indeed to the safety, of our nation and the world."14 Daisy welcomed the president's actions, but she was saddened to think that it required the... | |
 | David L. Anderson - 2003 - 334 pages
...also added another concern about the chaos in Little Rock: "At a time when we face a grave situation abroad because of the hatred that communism bears...influence, and indeed to the safety, of our nation and the world."14 Daisy welcomed the president's actions, but she was saddened to think that it required the... | |
 | Jonathan Rosenberg - 2006 - 348 pages
...domestic crisis. Linking domestic to world affairs, he asserted that events in Little Rock had made it "difficult to exaggerate the harm that is being done...indeed to the safety of our nation and the world." According to Eisenhower, America's "enemies are gloating over this incident and using it ... to misrepresent... | |
 | Joel H. Spring - 2006 - 322 pages
...laws, not men are supreme." He warned that incidents like Little Rock were threatening the security of the world: "At a time when we face grave situations...indeed to the safety, of our nation and the world." He continued, "Our enemies are gloating over this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent... | |
 | Elizabeth Jacoway - 2007 - 497 pages
...of the hatred that Communism bears toward a system of government based on human rights," he argued, "it would be difficult to exaggerate the harm that...indeed to the safety of our nation and the world." Claiming the nation's enemies were "gloating over this incident" the president called upon the citizens... | |
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At a time when we face grave situations abroad because of the hatred that Communism bears toward a system of government based on human rights, it would be difficult to exaggerate the harm that is being done to the prestige and influence, and indeed to... 