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James Reston on the President’s inaugural address (New York Times, January 22, 1957): “The speech was noble, eloquent, and generous . . . It proclaimed, indeed, a kind of new deal for the undernourished nations of the earth, going well beyond the domestic New and Fair Deals of his two immediate predecessors in the White House . . . No American President of this century ever uttered a more stirring dedication to the principles of internationalism . . . He offered help, without strings, to all nations in need or peril that asked for it.”