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...President of the U.S. entered by a side door, the organ played My Country, 'Tis of Thee. The modernistic, brick and glass First Baptist Church of Bonham, Texas, was full. John Kennedy took his place in a second-row pew, beside former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, and next to Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
Ever since he left Washington, Dwight Eisenhower has been encouraging his former Cabinet members to stay active in politics and even to run for office. First to heed the advice was Labor Secretary James Mitchell, who ran for Governor of New Jersey and was defeated by Democrat Richard Hughes (TIME, Nov. 17). Last week a second Ike teammate announced he would make the try. In Lincoln, Neb., former Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton announced he would run for Governor of Nebraska; he will probably face conservative Republican State Chairman Charles Thone in a primary next May. In addition to Mitchell...
...McLeod, 47. State Department security watchdog under John Foster Dulles and Ambassador to Ireland from 1957 to 1961, an ex-FBI man who forced the dismissal or resignation of 300 State Department employees in his first year at Foggy Bottom, ultimately became so much of a storm center that Dwight Eisenhower sent him off to Dublin after a bitter Senate confirmation debate in which McLeod was denounced by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark as a "symbol of the witch hunter" of the McCarthy era; of a heart attack; in Concord...
Herbert Hoover took his papers to Stanford University, his alma mater; Franklin D. Roosevelt's collection is at Hyde Park, N.Y., his former home; the Harry S. Truman Library is in Independence, Mo.; and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library was recently completed in Abilene, Kans...
...politics. None has created the stir caused by the Maharani of Jaipur, who chose to join the new and growing Swatantra Party, a right-wing group that attacks the "socialism" of Nehru's Congress Party and calls for the kind of individualism sought in the U.S. by Dwight Eisenhower. The party's venerable founder is Chakravatri Rajagopalachari, first native-born Governor General of India, who lyrically describes the maharani as "a combination of Sita, Lakshmi and the Rani of Jhansi...