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...Jean"-and at the Pope's suggestion, he again began to take an active part in the church's diplomatic life. Among the foreign dignitaries he welcomed in Italy: France's Charles de Gaulle, in 1959. Invited to the U.S. in 1960 to receive, along with Dwight Eisenhower, an honorary degree at Notre Dame, he assured American bishops that a L'Osservatore Romano editorial on the church's right to guide Catholic political thinking had no application to the fortunes of Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy (whom he did not meet). Afterward, he visited South...
...thirds majority, or 67 votes. Since only 40-odd Democrats can be expected to vote for cloture, the Administration will need 20-odd Republican votes. To rally those Republican votes, President Kennedy last week talked long and earnestly to G.O.P. congressional leaders. He also called in former President Dwight Eisenhower for a talk. Earlier that same day, Ike had told a group of congressional Republicans that "passing a whole bundle of laws" would not solve the civil rights problem, and he repeated the same thought to Kennedy...
Ginzburg marshaled 65 psychologists, sexologists and assorted literati to testify. Lillian Maxine Serett, who wrote The Housewife's Handbook under the pen name Key Anthony, told the court, "Women's role in sex is widely misunderstood. Women do have sexual rights." Essayist Dwight Macdonald testified that he found inoffensive a "photographic tone poem" in Eros showing a nude Negro man and a nude white woman in eight pages of assorted full-color embraces. But when it came to Liaison and The Housewife's Handbook, even Macdonald drew the line. They were, he said, "vulgar...
...official visit to a mental institution, and New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch went aboard a cancerbenefit gambling ship with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his bride. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele drove out to Gettysburg for a two-hour interview with an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. Reporter Steele found the former President profoundly committed to the proposition that another Republican should move into the White House in 1965, and equally convinced that the contest for the nomi nation should be wide open...
WRITING his memoirs in the serenity of his Little Gettysburg office sits the most influential Republican of them all. There had been reports that Dwight Eisenhower favored, and was quietly promoting, Michigan's Governor George Romney for next year's G.O.P. presidential nomination. But Ike insists that this is not so, that he prefers no one man to another-and that, in any event, he will not try to swing or sway the 1964 Republican convention toward anyone...