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...Hubert Humphrey stumped for Shapp. Richard Nixon and New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits have spoken for Shafer, Scranton has scheduled 40 speeches, and Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott has given him vigorous support. This week Bobby Kennedy will campaign for Shapp; Shafer will counter with Dwight Eisenhower, who will play host at Gettysburg to a reunion of Shafer's old PT boat squadron...
General Curtis LeMay, who retired in 1965 as Air Force Chief of Staff, last week described this limitation as "the ultimate in military blindness," added that if the "calculated risk" of heavier bombing were to fail, "then we must be prepared to fight Red China." Dwight Eisenhower said that he "would not automatically preclude anything"-including, by implication, nuclear weapons-"that would bring the war to an honorable and successful conclusion...
...South, where Democrats are scrambling to avoid identification with him, Lyndon Johnson also is the subject of considerable conversation without real ly being an issue. The fact is that a President's popularity-or lack of it-is not easily transferable in an off-year election; in 1958, Dwight Eisenhower's immense prestige did not prevent the Democrats from picking up 17 seats in the Senate, 49 in the House...
Over the next decade or so, disenchantment set in. In 1952 and 1956 Reagan voted for Dwight Eisenhower, and in 1960 he campaigned for Nixon for President. And by 1962 Reagan had leaped a pole apart from his original Democratic allegiance: he campaigned for California Congressman John Rousselot, who ran-and lost-as an avowed member of the John Birch Society. The same year, Reagan was state campaign chairman for Birch Backer Loyd Wright in his Republican primary contest against moderate G.O.P. Senator Thomas Kuchel. In 1964 Reagan, as co-chairman of California Citizens for Goldwater, went on TV with...
Adviser to Presidents, U.S. Army brigadier general and chief communications aide to Dwight Eisenhower in Europe, Sarnoff, at 75, would be more than justified if he were to retire. But he remains "too fascinated with the fu ture." Although he has relinquished his title of chief executive officer...