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Through Secretary Herter, Ike offered President-elect Kennedy an opportunity to associate his new Administration with the breakoff decision. Kennedy, through Secretary-designate of State Dean Rusk, declined. He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...liberal legislation to the floor. The liberal pressure bloc (which coyly masquerades under the name Democratic Study Group) had fought the committee before, and had always lost. This time, they were much better prepared and organized, and the political climate was favorable. They had the unspoken support of President-elect Kennedy, whose own legislative program was menaced by the Rules Committee bottleneck. And counting noses, they seemed to have the votes to work their will...
...strip him temporarily of his patronage. (In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive last week, Judge Smith threatened reprisal against Powell. Said he: "We will see whether whites and Negroes are treated the same around here.") But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee - and that he was the only man who could do anything effective...
Ever since Florida cops caught the New Hampshire postal clerk who intended to blow himself up in Kennedy's presence (TIME, Dec. 26), the President-elect has reluctantly begun to pay more attention to the security advice of his Secret Service guards, now holds them in new esteem...
...that it is in America's best interest to remain neutral. We entreat you, therefore, Mr. Kennedy, not to lend-lease or supply either side with enough arms or patronage for a decisive victory either way. If this fight can be kept going through 1962, we can re-elect Nelson Rockefeller as Governor without much difficulty...