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Dwight Eisenhower's problems were different from those of Harry Truman or Franklin Roosevelt. In the 85th Congress, controlling Democrats who were cautious about speaking out against Ike in previous years have spent the session turning him down on such major issues as civil rights, the budget, mutual security, school construction. Their confident unity was simply analyzed: Democrats, since Congress convened last January, have been preparing a record for 1958's congressional elections, beyond that for 1960's presidential campaign. And they early decided that they had little to worry about from a President who in spite...
...Dwight Eisenhower's closest Cabinet friend, the President's most trusted adviser in domestic affairs, the architect of a fiscal policy that helped bring record-breaking prosperity in peacetime. Months ago, George Humphrey telegraphed his intention to return to private business at the end of the 85th Congress (TIME, Feb. 11). The announcement last week of his resignation was therefore no surprise. But it was a highly significant landmark: it was in a strong sense the dividing line between the first Eisenhower Administration and a second Eisenhower Administration with new needs, new plans and new ambitions...
...support the defense budget of Republican Dwight Eisenhower. "This program," wrote Freeman, "is of utmost importance to insure our safety and to promote the prospects for peace in the U.S. and the world." Governor Freeman was not the only Democratic leader upset by the budget-slashing direction of the 85th Congress under Texas Democrats Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. In nearly every state outside the South, top Democrats viewed with anguish and anger the party record being written by the 85th Congress. Reason: the Johnson-Rayburn emphasis on budget cutting means hacking away at programs for which the national Democratic...
...Almanach de Gotha. They were her cachet of respectability, her inner answer to the poverty of childhood and the gossiping envy that surrounded her later life. Her father could afford to keep her at St. Catherine's for only a single term. But it was enough. In her 85th year, when she had been a friend of the former Queen of Spain and the Prince of Wales, her proudest boast was still: "I was educated at Benicia." It meant nothing to most of her listeners. It meant everything to Louise...
...President is willing to let the dilatory 85th Congress move on civil rights before he makes an all-out fight for the Hungarians. But he feels that the U.S. has made a high moral commitment. And beyond that, he wonders how, if Congress is not even willing to grant help to the Hungarian refugees, the U.S. could possibly offer any sort of hope to Freedom Fighters if revolt were to break out in another Soviet satellite...