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Even before the Nixon obituary went on the air, ABC's switchboard lit up with protests; after the show was over, the network received several thousand phone calls and 300 telegrams, most of them objecting to the presence of Hiss. Even former President Dwight Eisenhower called James Hagerty, ABC vice president and Eisenhower's press secretary for eight years, to express "astonishment...
Newsmen on the move: > Emmet John Hughes, 41, is quitting as policy adviser to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, will become columnist for Newsweek. A former TIME chief of correspondents, Hughes turned behind-scenes political strategist and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, shifted to Rockefeller in 1960. But in such work, he says, he missed the pleasure of speaking his own mind. He has already written America the Vincible, a turgid criticism of Eisenhower's foreign policy; now he is prepared to take another public swipe at his old boss with a new book, Eisenhower: A Political Memoir...
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Stirrings of Life. Not for a long while has the South been solid in presidential elections. Herbert Hoover (mostly because he was running against Catholic Al Smith) and Dwight Eisenhower gathered big batches of Southern electoral votes. In 1960, even in defeat, Richard Nixon carried Florida, Tennessee and Virginia, as well as Oklahoma and Kentucky on the borders of the South. But in elections for lesser offices, the South with scattered exceptions held firm to its Democratic traditions. The G.O.P. showed stirrings of life in the South in 1952 and 1954. Then it stalled, gaining not a single additional congressional...
Seaton wore tailored suits, had spent a lot of time in the effete East-meaning, Washington, D.C.-as Dwight Eisenhower's Interior Secretary. He came out for a more costly teacher-retirement program, increased funds for the University of Nebraska, a stepped-up highway construction plan. Morrison, a scuffed-shoes-and-red-galluses sort of fellow, made fun of the Kennedy Administration, declined to let New Frontier Democrats come into the state to campaign for him, insisted that Seaton's programs would require a 40% increase in the state's property tax. Nebraska Republicans decided that Democrat...