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Johnson said that it would be a "good idea" if the Administration consulted Democratic committee chairmen on new foreign and defense programs. This might avoid "crash-landings-only" bipartisanship. President Eisenhower quickly agreed to Johnson's suggestion, and, the next day, he made good his promise by drafting an order directing certain department heads to consult in advance with congressional committee chairmen...
...Monty's remarks to create a picture of pinheaded generals eager to trigger the world into war. Result: by the time the NATO conference got under way last week, the British and the French were talking up a plan that would require NATO's commanders to consult all 14 governments before answering a Soviet attack with atomic weapons. Such a plan would leave the West helpless during the first vital hours, while the Reds could be atom-bombing at will. John Foster Dulles put forward a compromise solution that won unanimous approval. In effect, it established that...
...Indianola, Miss., members of the Citizens Council have been buttonholing patients of Negro Physician Clinton Battle, have warned them that they will lose their jobs if they continue to consult him. Reason: Battle, the first Negro in Sunflower County to register and vote, had been urging other Negroes to follow suit. The council's campaign has been so successful that at the last election not a single Negro-including Dr. Battle-appeared at the polls...
...SECRET DIARY OF HAROLD ICKES, VOLS. II AND III, could hardly be described as good reading, but future historians will have to consult them for inside descriptions of New Deal power plays, inner-circle animosities, and Honest Harold's cantankerous sum-up of liberal types...
...Consult with Salk...