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...Herter worked as a member of a team drafting foreign-policy speeches for U.S. Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey. Teammate: Doug Dillon. Team coach: John Foster Dulles. Herter met Dwight Eisenhower in Paris in 1951, instantly joined the ranks of Republicans urging Ike to run for the presidency, helped as a campaign adviser...
...Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 56, heir to a great Republican name, for 13 years Senator from Massachusetts, Dwight Eisenhower's campaign manager in 1952. President Eisenhower has great respect for Lodge, has insisted that he attend Cabinet meetings. But the nomination of Cabot Lodge, for all his obvious abilities, would almost certainly invite trouble in the Senate, where oldtimers still remember the impetuous, sometimes undependable ways of his youthful days as a Senator-even though an older and more considerate U.N. ambassador has long since mended the ways...
...times the capacity of politicians for reassuring talk and disturbing action reaches astounding proportions. Six years ago, Dwight Eisenhower took office amid promises of bringing the "best brains in the country" into his Administration. The sources of these paragons turned out to be Wall Street and the corporation boardrooms, and their performance in office has by and large proven uninspired...
Neither passionate proddings by Northerners nor desperate defiance by Southerners have swayed Dwight Eisenhower in his refusal to make a moral crusade out of the civil rights issue. The President's bedrock position: the law must be obeyed. Last week the Administration sent to Congress a civil rights bill that is even more temperate in its use of law than its 1957 version. Notably missing: the celebrated Title III of the 1957 bill that would have empowered the Attorney General to file suits on behalf of citizens deprived of civil rights,* an omission seeming to indicate that the President...
While the wine was chilling at the beginning of the evening, a forum was held on the collecting of art. Leonard Baskin, Wellesley art historian John McAndrew, and John Nicholas Brown '22, introduced as a yachtsman and collector, were the scheduled speakers. Dwight MacDonald, replacing ailing Paul J. Sachs, professor of Fine Arts, emeritus, completed the panel...