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...fuss that would open him to further charges of aggressiveness. He could not resist sticking an elbow into the American Medical Association for its opposition to medicare, but he ducked a question about Teddy in Massachusetts, shucked off an invitation to become involved in a public dispute with Dwight Eisenhower. Asked what he thought of Ike's remark that the Republicans were a businessman's party, he replied: "Well, I don't like disagreeing with President Eisenhower, so I won't in this case...
...things are changing in the old Confederate states. Dwight Eisenhower's popularity overcame the desuetude of G.O.P. state organizations; he carried four Southern states in 1952 and five in 1956. Richard Nixon won three in 1960 and polled 4,700,000 votes in the South - only 400,000 less than John Kennedy. As the surprising G.O.P. sentiment bubbled up, virtually without local leadership, the party began attracting a new breed of politician- furrow-browed, button-down, college-trained young amateurs who, one by one, took over control of the state parties from apathetic and aging professionals. The new wave...
...jazz started off "boo-boo-boo-boo-boo," complained the Soviet Premier, setting it to his own clopping time by dancing a jig on the front lawn of Spaso House. Russian or American, it was all Chinese to him, and so was that other whatchamacallit, abstract art. Amateur Painter Dwight Eisenhower once told him that modern art "makes me sick to the stomach," and Nikita bobbed his head approvingly: "It's the same with...
...former U.S. Presidents took issue with the court. Said Dwight Eisenhower: "I always thought that this nation was essentially a religious one." Herbert Hoover was more outspoken. He called the decision a "disintegration of one of the most sacred of American heritages." Congress, he said, "should at once submit an amendment to the Constitution which establishes the right to religious devotion in all governmental agencies-national, state or local." President Kennedy carefully-and wisely-supported the court's decision-making power, avoided direct comment on the merits of the decision (Eisenhower employed much the same technique in his reaction...
...gulf between the President and "them" is great. One bitter New York investor, recalling how the stock market plunged after Dwight Eisenhower's 1955 heart attack, muttered last week: "I wonder what would happen if Kennedy had a heart attack.'' Donning cap and gown at Yale's commencement exercises. President Kennedy delivered a speech on economics that was characteristically stronger on style than on substance. And even though he was trying to hold out a hand of friendship to U.S. business, he could not resist a threat of the sort that has so shaken business confidence...