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...both started to take notes, could barely keep up. In the cold war, said Kennedy, the U.S. faces two major challenges. One is economic, but the U.S. can and will intensify its economic contest with the Soviet Union. The other threat is military-probably not on the cataclysmic scale of all-out nuclear war but rather in the form of Communistexploited brush fires throughout the world. In Communist jargon, these are known as "wars of liberation," and the U.S. must find ways and means of dealing with them...
...soundly trouncing Republican Harold Stassen. Dilworth energetically carried out the cleansweep urban renewal programs begun under Clark, made his own mark as an all-out liberal reformer...
...struggle between all-out proponents of federally financed health care for the aged and all-out opponents of any Government involvement, a third force emerged last week and offered a comprehensive middleway plan. Meeting in Chicago, the American Hospital Association and the Blue Cross Association voted to support a new, nonprofit plan to be available to all Americans over 65. Subscribers would pay all or part of their premiums ($10 to $12 a month) in proportion to their incomes, and the Federal Government would pay part or all of the premiums for low-income oldsters...
...Democratic majorities-but those majorities were deceptive, particularly in the House of Representatives, where conservative Democrats (mostly from the South) and Republicans saw Kennedy's squeaky win over Dick Nixon as less than a national mandate. The first major fight in Congress was over the Kennedy Administration's all-out effort to liberalize the House Rules Committee. The resolution carried by a scant five votes-and right then and there President Kennedy, a veteran vote counter, concluded that his domestic programs were in for trouble...
...Kennedy tries to win them over. He places great emphasis on the power of the press, and no other U.S. President has granted so many private interviews to journalists of many levels. It goes without saying that organized labor is friendly to Democrat Kennedy, but the President has also gone all-out to relieve big business of its suspicions about his Administration. He has sent his economic advisers all over the country to preach that big business is a respected Administration partner, slipped such business leaders as U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough into the White House for long, earnest chats...