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Last week, in the face of a rising outcry, both the Kennedy Administration and Dwight Eisenhower were defending their transactions with Yugoslavia. The theory behind the program is that U.S. aid helps Yugoslavia's dissident Communist Tito from falling into the Soviet Union's smothering embrace. Such aid, said State Secretary Dean Rusk, has unquestionably helped Yugoslavia to stay independent of the Soviet bloc. The sale of the planes, said Ike, was "in the best interests of the United States...
...Ghana, Clarence Randall will try to determine whether the dam is economically feasible-and whether Nkrumah really deserves aid. The onetime chairman of Inland Steel, Republican Randall served as chairman of the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy under Dwight Eisenhower and knows the ins and outs of foreign aid. He is also a very tough customer...
...Believe me," said Dwight Eisenhower just before he left the White House, "I'm going to be heard from." Last week, true to his word, Ike hit the hustings for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate James Mitchell in New Jersey, unburdened himself on the problems of U.S. Government at a pair of flossy Manhattan functions. (One Eisenhower reflection: "The effect of pressure groups, the pressure groups of labor and the agricultural community . . . is the enemy of really intelligent attacks on our problems.") And when Republican National Chairman William Miller opined that Ike, not Nixon, was titular leader of the Republican Party...
...things about the presidency," observed the smiling gentleman farmer, "is the way you have to be prepared to jump, just like a mountain sheep from one jag to another." The speaker was in a position to know: he was Dwight Eisenhower in the retirement of his Gettysburg farm, talking for ten filmed hours with TV Newsman Walter Cronkite. Last week, marking Ike's 71st birthday just after he had been given a high bill of health after a physical examination, CBS televised the first of three hour-long shows edited from the conversations. It provided some fascinating and meaningful...
Thurs., Oct. 12 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Last spring CBS persuaded Dwight D. Eisen hower to record his comments on the presidency, his own years in office, etc. Selections making up three one-hour segments will be broadcast this season, the first to night. The entire twelve-hour footage-some of which Ike will not permit to be broadcast now-will be placed in the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kans...