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...Dwight Eisenhower's self-assigned task, as he flies south to Latin America this week, is to convey, through his own popular image, the image of a U.S. policy that is not always as well understood. Basis of the policy: the U.S. shares with Latin America and the rest of the free world the goal of a world with less privation and fear, more peace with justice and freedom. The President's 15,560 jet trip through four democratic, rapidly developing republics (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay) comes as a climax to steadily growing U.S. concern for Latin America...
...midst of the defense battle, Dwight Eisenhower last week stood under some of the sharpest crossfire of personal attack since he stepped into the presidency. Congressional investigators prodded generals and admirals into admitting that they wanted more money than Ike's $41 billion military budget allows. Democrats accused the President of gambling with the nation's security; Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a presidential hopeful, even threatened to publish top-secret U.S. intelligence estimates if the Administration denies that Soviet might has "increased considerably." (Grumped Ike to his staff: "We may have to take another look...
...Mike Monroney ran the report through his committee and got legislation moving. With single-minded disregard for political pitfalls and bureaucratic bear traps, Monroney thrashed his way through the congressional jungle with expert leadership. One member of his safari: Pete Quesada, whose good World War II friend and commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, had just named him Special Assistant for Aviation...
Right Flank March. A month later, he put Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower piggyback in the cockpit of a P-51 and took him on a go-minute ride along the beachhead ("Eisenhower was very pleased, but we both caught hell from the Joint Chiefs of Staff"). During the great armored-tank drive across Europe, Quesada's Ninth Tactical Air Command, rather than troops, became Lieut. General George Patton's "right flank": he had put a fighter pilot in each of Patton's lead tanks "so that we would have quick communications with fighter pilots. I wanted...
...General William Rogers' plan for court-appointed referees to safeguard Negro voting rights in all elections, state and local as well as federal (TIME, Feb. 8). Whether the Democratic majorities in Congress accept the Rogers plan or reject it, it may win some Negro votes for the G.O.P. Dwight Eisenhower got an estimated 21% of the Negro vote in 1952, some 39% in 1956; unless the economy sags in the meantime, Nixon might do even better...