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Does It Work? A President owes it to himself, and to his country, to keep informed and seek the best advice available. There is no perfect way to cull ideas -Franklin Roosevelt relied more on his White House troubleshooters than on his Cabinet, Dwight Eisenhower on an Army-style staff system. But the test of any method is and must be pragmatic: Does it work? Even more than F.D.R., John Kennedy has chosen to rely on a large, select squad of brain trusters. Creating policy, the President gathers his advisers in study groups and task forces, gives them freedom...
Crutches Aside. Gradually, cautiously, painfully, the President began working himself away from his crutches. For a White House luncheon with former President Dwight Eisenhower and Japan's Premier Hayato Ikeda (see Foreign Relations), Kennedy put the crutches aside, walked around with his guests in his old hands-in-the-pocket manner. When the President took Ikeda for a short Potomac cruise on the presidential yacht, Honey Fitz,* Kennedy hobbled up the gangplank without crutches...
Polite Phrases. Next morning he splashed through a downpour without raincoat to lay white gladioli and yellow chrysanthemums at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then sat next to former President Dwight Eisenhower at a White House luncheon. Back in the rain, he cruised the choppy Potomac for two hours with Kennedy on the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. Before leaving the U.S., Ikeda addressed the House of Representatives and flew on to New York, where, in polite phrases, he issued a clear warning: U.S. restrictions against Japanese products can hurt the Japanese economy-and that economy is vital...
...Since Dwight Eisenhower's illnesses. the U.S. has come to expect frank, explicit and even intimate information about the health of its President. But John Kennedy's press aides have been reluctant to discuss the President's back injury, and his doctors have refused to say anything at all. If, as they insist, it is only "a minor ailment," then by their reticence they have needlessly caused confusion and concern...
This time the issue was Premier Hayato Ikeda's political-violence prevention bill, designed to prevent the kind of mob violence that last year forced Ikeda's predecessor, Premier Nobusuke Kishi, to cancel a projected visit from former President Dwight Eisenhower and, subsequently, brought Kishi's own resignation. Ironically, the bill was first urged on the government by the Socialists themselves, who took alarm when Socialist Party Chairman Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated by a fanatic right-wing student...