Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your story about New Frontier nip-ups, and President Roosevelt's requirements for unlucky foreign diplomats [Feb. 15], brought to mind William Roscoe Thayer's account of the dispatch that the new French Ambassador M. Jusserand sent to Paris soon after his arrival in this country during Roosevelt's term of office...
...Washington even the New Frontier was beginning to back away from the fad it had fielded. The President's own Fitness Council warned of the dangers to the unaccustomed-perhaps even a heart attack. That was enough for portly Pierre Salinger, who had promised he would carry the Administration's banner in a do-or-die walkathon with newsmen. Salinger canceled the hike, explaining: "My shape is not good. While this fact may have been apparent to others for some time, its full significance was pressed upon me as a result of a six-mile hike last Sunday...
...Frontier may seem timid at times in foreign relations, but on the domestic scene it can be jokingly aggressive-as it showed in the steel-price battle, the Battle of Mississippi, and several other feats of political jujitsu. Last week the Administration even tried to take Abraham Lincoln away from the Republican Party...
Search for Ideas. But also evident in the Republican speechmaking was a recurrent recognition that, vulnerable as the New Frontier's record is, the Republican Party has to offer the nation something more positive than denunciation. Speaking in Boston, Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper told his Republican audience that the Democratic Party had won its majority position "because it is a lively party . . . because it gives the idea of change and progress," and he urged the Republicans to strive for a consensus "upon the fundamental purposes and interests of our party." New York's Senator Jacob...
...devoted readership has included every U.S. President since Calvin Coolidge. Dwight Eisenhower, who on occasion boasted that he never read the liberal-leaning Washington Post, admitted that he always read the Post's Povich. The brothers Kennedy cull Povich columns for anecdotes useful on the sports-conscious New Frontier...