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...walls were newly painted minutes after Ike moved out, but Kennedy ordered them repainted-in white. The two red couches were sent out to be re-covered in tan. Ike's gold-eagle bookends stayed on the presidential desk, but between them now are a Bible, The World Almanac, and two of Author Jack Kennedy's own books: The Strategy of Peace and Profiles in Courage. Some of the President's recent reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside Story of the Eisenhower Administration-cluttered...
...Kennedy riffled back again through history for Nixon's benefit. "The Republican nominee, of course, is a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past-the party of memory. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac ..." Part of the reason that Kennedy's daisy cutter misfired was that he and Nixon are known to have a genuine, longstanding respect for each other-both are ex-naval officers, both members of the freshman congressional class of 1947, both together on such sturdy mid-20th century issues...
This, Laura, was a protest song back in the thirties. They really cared which side you were on, then. Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers Talked Union all up and down this great land of ours. Detroit to Frisco, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem. Left wing, they called them. Unpatriotic--Moscow agents...
...audience just accepted Millard and me. He had his shirt and I had mine." Marguerite Belafonte remembers the chain-"the Vanguard, the Blue Angel, the Black Orchid in Chicago, the Chase Hotel in St. Louis-and straight to the sky." Belafonte got parts in John Murray Anderson's Almanac on Broadway and in the movie Carmen Jones. Then one RCA Victor album-Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean-transformed Belafonte from a nightclub headliner into an international show-business celebrity...
...Catholic Committee of the South, founded in 1939 to work on Southern social and economic problems, was quietly eliminated by the Southern bishops at the annual meeting of the Catholic hierarchy in 1956-so quietly that it is still listed in the 1958 National Catholic Almanac...