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...Kennedy electors in Mississippi. Reprisals are not unheard of in such situations, but the recent tendency has been for the Congress to forgive its prodigal sons. In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage. (In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive last week, Judge Smith threatened reprisal against Powell. Said he: "We will see whether whites and Negroes are treated the same...
...last Christmas tree as Chief Executive. And in the stores of F Street and Connecticut Avenue, salesmen reported with satisfaction that sales of top hats (at $40 and up), in conformity with Jack Kennedy's plans, had outstripped the black Homburg, an inaugural innovation that came with Dwight Eisenhower and, apparently, will end with his Administration...
...games for White House occupants, sniggered: "Fear not, I tell myself; the men who emerge as our leaders will have the incalculable advantage of knowing me." Allen may find it rough going in enticing John F. Kennedy into the recreations that he enjoyed with Gettysburg Neighbor Dwight Eisenhower (farming, bridge and golf), Harry Truman (poker) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (for whom Allen was a top jester as well as a District of Columbia commissioner). Last week Golfer Kennedy, never keen on card games, made it clear that there will be no afternoon trips to Burning Tree: he will abstain from...
...White House. But Republican C. Douglas Dillon looked forward to being Nixon's Secretary of State or Secretary of the Treasury. Then President-elect Kennedy asked him to become the new Administration's Treasury Secretary. Dillon wanted the job, but was in a tough spot. As Dwight Eisenhower's Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, he would be accused of disloyalty if he turned around and served an Administration whose campaign platform derided the "high interest, tight money" policies of his old boss...
...accept without a commitment in writing from Kennedy that he would have a free hand in setting Treasury policy. Dillon answered that he had such an agreement, although not in writing, but seemed to miss the presidential point. From the tone of his warning, it was clear that Dwight Eisenhower had not wanted Dillon to serve under Jack Kennedy, and was mighty unhappy that his advice had been ignored...