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...that sense that Republican Dwight Eisenhower, after a Washington strategy conference with the G.O.P.'s Capitol Hill leaders, last week defended Kennedy's foreign policies but strongly criticized the President for "the strenuous efforts of the Administration to increase greatly the power of the executive branch of the Government. It has long been my judgment that the real threat to liberty in this Republic will be primarily found in a steady erosion of self-reliant citizenship and in excessive power concentration." To back up his charge that Kennedy is asking for too many powers, Ike cited Kennedy...
...dedication ceremonies for the $3.000.000 Eisenhower Presidential Library in his boyhood home of Abilene, Kans., Dwight Eisenhower had some blunt, plainsman's thoughts for Americans to ponder. Standing before the two-level building, which eventually will hold 20 million documents from his two terms in the White House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded...
Died. Guy Wiggins, 78, rearguard landscape painter and National Academician, whose gay limning of snowstorms and hansom cabs held its charm-especially as a favorite of Sunday Painter Dwight D. Eisenhower-long past the representational heyday; of kidney disease; in St. Augustine...
...automatically inflationary if the federal budget is in debt." But though they see no inflation in prospect, a number of economists point out that deficits in the administrative budget nonetheless have a damaging psychological effect-especially abroad. Says Columbia University's Professor Raymond J. Saulnier, former chairman of Dwight Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers: "Deficits tend to undermine confidence in the value of the dollar, which can reflect itself in disinvestment in U.S. capital and in a gold outflow." As if to underscore the point, the Federal Reserve reported that the U.S. last week lost $40 million...
...appointed Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Works in 1953 and claims that more construction was carried out under his direction than any time before or since. For these accomplishments and his support in the Presidential elections, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him Federal Highway Commissioner...