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...Deferring to the sensitivities of his recent opponent, President Kennedy told his press conference that he would give his opinion on the matter-"I do have an opinion"-only if Nixon asked for it. Off for a golf date with Nixon at Maryland's Burning Tree Country Club, Dwight Eisenhower took the same tack: "If he wants my advice, I'll be glad to give it to him." But the lack of an invitation did not inhibit New York's bouncy Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who clearly has his own eye on the 1964 Republican presidential nomination...
...Problem of Climate. To the casual observer, that responsibility might seem simple. After all, Democrat Jack Kennedy took office from Republican Dwight Eisenhower with lopsidedly Democratic majorities in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. But Kennedy won his way to the White House by such a perilous plurality (118,000 votes out of a national total of 68 million) that he could in no sense be considered to have a mandate that might compel Congressmen to go along with him. Indeed, many winning Democratic Representatives and Senators who led Kennedy on the ticket within their own constituencies...
...Patronage. Just before O'Brien took over as President Kennedy's liaison representative to Congress, he conferred with Republican Dwight Eisenhower's man on the Hill, Bryce Harlow. From Harlow, O'Brien received a piece of sage advice: not to get too overtly involved with patronage problems. Said Harlow: "With patronage, you will have to turn down ten men for every one you say yes to. You make people unhappy instead of happy...
...gladhanding Democratic politician, Morrissey has had little trial experience as a lawyer, but he is a longtime friend of Joe Kennedy's and a former campaign aide of the President's. Anyhow. Justice officials insist that they will improve at least slightly on the box score of Dwight Eisenhower, who made 189 judicial appointments-only eleven of them Democrats. Likely spots for G.O.P. district judges: Kansas, Iowa and New York, which each have two Republican Senators...
Died. General Walter Bedell Smith, 65, the U.S.'s steely wheel horse in war and peace, Dwight D. Eisenhower's grand planner from 1942 to 1945, subsequently a State Department and CIA troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington (see THE NATION...