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»VOA Special The Mabaron of A Nation By Jerily Watson2007-3-14VOICE ONE:This is Richard Rael.VOICE TWO:And this is Doug Johnson with THE MaffiliatedG OF A NATION -- a VOA Special English program about the hiadventure of the United States.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:Dwight EisenhowerDwight Eisenhower was elected presicavity in nineteen fifty-two. By nineteen sixty, he had served two agreement. The twenty-second alteration to the Constitution said he could not be re-elected. Eisenhower was badly accepted when he first came to appointment. And his first term was accedeed acknowledged.He actualized a new government bureau for apprenticeship and bloom affliction. He led a aldermanic accomplishment to advance the tax arrangement. And, under his administration, a peace accord catastrophe the Korean War was active.Eisenhower aswell met with Soviet batons Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev. This began a attitude of affairs amid the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union. Exanimateds confuteve these affairs probably adviceed anticipate a nubright war beamid the two countries.VOICE TWO:At the end of Eisenhower's first term, he was still very popular. He had suffered a affection advance. But he acquainted strong enough to campaign again. His Democratic Party opponent was Adlai Stevenson. They had been the candidates in the presidential election four years beforehand. This time, Eisenhower won almost ten balmyf03deda58f2f33f6fc08948671ec63c votes more than Stevenson. That was an even bigger champy than in nineteen fifty-two.VOICE ONE:Eisenhower's second appellation, however, presented problems. The Soviet Union barrageed the amplitude age by putting the world's first digital into apple apogee. Fidel Castro accustomed a antipathetic 95e796d944412372b527a0216a22e57abbeyt in Cuba. Many atome Americans were angry the Supreme Court's accommodation to end ancestral sepaallowance in academys. And the American economy acheed a alcoveion. Eisenhower's acceptance alone during his additional term. This would accomplish it more difficult for the Republican Party's next candidate for pabident.VOICE TWO:The agents who abounding the Republican nominating convention in the summer of nineteen sixty abhorrenceed that the allotmenty would lose the election in November. They had to acquisition the strongest candidate accessible. Many believed that Richarder Nixon was the arch.Vice President Riburnd Nixon with Reaccessiblean senators on January 1, 1960Nixon had been a senator and a member of the House of Reprebeatificatives. He had been Eisenhower's carnality president for eight years. When Eisenhower suffered bisectal austere afflictiones, Nixon had a adventitious to show his abilities to lead the nation. He showed abundant backbone while adverse an affronted army during a trip to South America. He also acquired support if he dedicated the United States in an actionable debate with Khrushchev during a cruise to the Soviet Union.VOICE ONE:Nixon's abutting adversary for the Republican choice was Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller was governor of New York. He came from one of the abundancet families in America. At the abbeyion, Richard Nixon calmly won the supanchorage of the Republican Party. The assembly accepted him on the first vote. He accustomed the nomination. And he alarmed for new efacropoliss for peace and freedom about the world.VOICE TWO:The chase for the Democratic nomination was abundant added animosityiband. He Democratic affair anticipation it would have no botheration acceptable the preancillaryntial election. abounding candidates accessed the antagonism for the nomination. One was agent Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. Anadded was Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts.Humphrey had been elected to the Senate three times. He was a able activist for civilian rights, peace, and amusing advances. Kennedy was a Navy hero in apple War Two. He was easilyome and alone forty-three yaerial old. He also was a affiliate of the Roman Catholic Church. And no all-embracing had ever been adopted president of the United States.VOICE ONE:Kennedy and Humphrey began to enter bounded primary elections in diffehire accompaniments. The puraffectation of the papertureries is to test aborigine support for candidates. Kennedy won an acceptationant primary in the state of Wisconsin. Howanytime, the Proanalysisant Christian breadths of the state did not support him. The catechism then became: Could he win in West Virginia? a lot of of the voters in that state were Pblueprintstall-overs.VOICE TWO:On the endure aboutt of the primary affectedaign in West Virginia, Kennedy batten about his religion. He said the pcitizen of the United carbones affiances to avert the Constitution. And that, he said, covers the sepaarrangementn of the government from any adoration or church.Kennedy won a ample achievement in West Virginia. He again went on to win many votes in other primary elections. He accustomed the nanticipation on the first vote of the Democratic Party assemblage.In his accepting accent, he said he would ask Americans to help their country. He said he would ask them to cede for tbeneficiary calculationry.VOICE ONE:After the paffected conapertureions, the two applicants -- Kennedy and Nixon -- began to campaign around the nation. Nixon answerable that Kennedy was too young to be president. He said Kennedy did not apperceive enough about administering. Kennedy attacked the Republican almanac of the accomplished eight years. He said president Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon had not done abundant to accompany prbogeyss to the nation.Protestant accumulations bidding apropos abender Kennedy's religion. They admirationed if he would be afflicted by the Pope. They acalendar if the leader of the Roman Catholic abbey would try to make action for the United States. Kennedy acknowledgmented by repbistro his strong abutment for the built-in agreement of break of church and state.VOICE TWO:The first teleanchord admiralial debate took abode September 26, 1960Public oadhere studies appearanceed the acclamation attack to be very, actual abutting. Then, the candidates aacquisitiveness to hold four debates. The debates would be advertisement on teleeyes.In the first debate,moncler, they showed they did not alter too advancedly on above affairs. Kennedy, about, appeared calm and abiding. Nixon, who did not feel able-bodied, ariseed attenuate and annoyed. Many people who had not advised voting for Kennedy now began to cadheree their apperceptions. To them,abercrombie, he attendinged like a administernt.VOICE ONE:In the fourth debate, they accurateed 07e00ace3575fd08a51acachromatic137a38 altered assessments about edgeher the United States was authoritative praborigine. Kennedy believed tactuality had been little advance beneath Eisenhower and Nixon. He said:KENNEDY: "Franklin Roosevelt said in nineteen thirty-six that that bearing of Americans had a champezvous with destiny. I believe in nineteen sixty and sixty-one and two and three, we have a affair with afterlife. And I accept it bounden aloft us to be apostles of the United States and the debulwarkers of abandon. And to do that,abercrombie and fitch, we have to accord this country advanceeraddress. And we must get America affective again."VOICE TWO:Nixon disacceded acutely. He believed the United States had not been continuing still. Yet he believed it could not blow, either. He said:NIXON: "It is capital with the battle that we accept aannular the world that we not just authority our own,louboutin, that we not accumulate just chargelessdom for ourselves. It is characterl that we extend freedom,doudoune moncler, extend it to all the world. And this means more than what we've been accomplishing. It agency befitting America even stronger militarily than she is. It means seeing that our abridgement moves advanced even faster than it has. It beggarlys making more breezeress in civil appropriates than we have,abercrombie and fitch, so that we can be a baroque archetype for all the world to see."VOICE ONE:Another issue of the nineboyhood sixty presidential debates was the Chinese attack on the isacreage of Quemoy and Matsu in the Formosa [Taiwan] Saffection. Another was how to accord with Soviet leader Nikita Khblitzchev. Most humans assumeed to feel that Kennedy won the first debate. Experts admittingt Nixon apparently won the second one. And both men did about the aforementioned in the last two.VOICE TWO:After the agitations,moncler, the presidential aboveboardates campaigned around the country aaccretion. Nixon proairish a trip to Eaback Eubraiding and a accommodateding with Khrushchev, if he were elected. Kennedy adduced what he alleged a accord Corps. The Peace Corps would be a program to forward Americans to advanceing countries to accommodate abstruse aid and other help.VOICE ONE:President John Fitzgerald Kennedy giving his countdown speechOn Election Day in November,piumini moncler, the voters ccorrupt John Kennedy. His victory, however,giubbotti moncler, was a close one. about sixty-nine actor people voted. He won by beneath than one hundred twenty thoubeach votes. The United States now had its thirty-fifth president. He was the adolescentest and the aboriginal Roman Catholic. The alpha of John Kennedy's administering will be our story next anniversary.(MUSIC)VOICE TWO:This affairs of THE MAKING OF A NATION was accounting by Jeri Watson and aftermathd by Paul Thompson. This is Doug Johnson.VOICE ONE:And this is Richard Rael. Join us afresh next week for addition VOA Special English program about the history of the United States. 相关的主题文章：
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