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...superficial signs of similarity were more obvious each week. Instead of presidential golf at Palm Springs and Gettysburg, there was presidential golf at Palm Beach and Middleburg. New Frontier "task forces" had taken over from Eisenhower-era "study committees," but little seemed to be happening. Dwight Eisenhower had been criticized for his wandering press conference syntax; last week's Kennedy conference was as notable for its shapeless prose as for its muted tone...
Defeat & Frustration. Almost every other index attests to Kennedy's personal popularity. In a recent Gallup poll, 73% said they approved of the way he is handling his job, and only 6% disapproved (the rest had no opinion); at the corresponding point in Dwight Eisenhower's first term, a similar Gallup poll showed 67% approval, 8% disapproval...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Richard M. Nixon, Dean Rusk...
Shortly after leaving Gettysburg to unlimber on Palm Springs' Eldorado links, Dwight D. Eisenhower insisted that he hadn't "a plan beyond this next stroke." But the lure of the pen soon proved mightier than the mashie, and the war chronicler-whose 1948 Crusade in Europe sold 1,500,000 copies and earned him $635,000-promised an updater. Ike's subject: "My eight years in the presidency and the lessons I believe can be drawn therefrom...
...politics, this means that Dallas and the News prefer Republicans to Democrats, given half a chance. In Bruce Alger, strongly supported by the News, Dallas has a four-term Republican Congressman-the only member of his party in the Texas delegation to Washington. In 1952 and 1956, Republican Dwight Eisenhower, backed by the News, carried Democratic Texas by margins slighter than his Dallas pluralities. In 1960, Republican Nixon lost Texas-but still took the Dallas area by nearly...