Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas McKay. One afternoon Dr. Arthur Burns, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Gabriel Hauge, the President's personal economic adviser, met with Ike and got his approval of a domestic Point 4 program (see above). One morning the President worked for 45 minutes on a draft of his 1956 State of the Union message, with Presidential Assistants Sherman Adams and "Jerry" Persons and Speechwriter Kevin McCann. Each day he read Secretary Dulles' reports from Geneva. The number of documents signed by the President increased from a trickle of papers of top importance to an almost...
...minutes the President and the Secretary of State talked. At times Ike's cheerful voice and occasional laughter could be heard out in the corridor. When they came to the Bulganin letter, Dulles produced a proposed draft, which did little more than acknowledge that the President had received the Soviet Premier's letter discussing U.S.-Soviet exchange of military information and aerial inspection. Editing and reworking the Dulles draft, the President pointed up the whole letter and brought in a new point: "I have not forgotten your proposal having to do with stationing inspection teams at key points...
...alerted to De Sapio's visit, six top party leaders gathered in the Los Angeles hotel suite of the state's No. 1 Democrat, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown. Problem: What to do about De Sapio? Their solution was sharp and bright as a knife: start a draft-Stevenson movement...
...Palace, Brown & Co. proudly waved a stack of telegrams supporting their draft movement. "We're off and running," said Pat Brown. "We want this movement to begin in the West, and there's no turning back: we're in this until Stevenson releases us at the convention." Los Angeles Democratic Leader Paul Ziffren, who could be De Sapio's twin for looks, signed the Stevenson telegram. Nevertheless, he visited De Sapio and tried to soften the thrust...
Returning to his farm from his Kansas City triumph this week, Joe planned to apply to his debts the $1,000 that went with his Star Farmer award. His immediate future is made uncertain by his I-A draft status. But no matter where he is sent or for how long, he will return to the life that, through his troubles as well as his triumphs, he has come to consider the best and the fullest in the world. Says Farmer Joe Moore: "Farming's the closest thing to the Lord you can do. You work with the things...