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Heroes & Bums. It remained far from clear whether the President had actually tried to hurt Stevenson through Bartlett and Alsop. Most of the evidence was to the contrary. What had probably happened was that some other New Frontiersmen, knowing of the President's lack of deep affection for Adlai, had felt free to knock him. What the whole controversy really did was to highlight the huge personal and philosophical differences between Kennedy and Stevenson. "We seem to be living in an era," said Stevenson last week, "when anyone who is for war is a hero and anyone...
...Brassy Words." In Denver, Eisenhower zeroed in on the New Frontiersmen with measured scorn. Said he: "For my part I am tired-terribly tired-of hearing America run down by them, of hearing their brassy and boastful words and watching their bumbling actions. The Washington record of these past 20 months presents a picture of political connivance instead of statesmanship, of selfish grabs for power instead of respect for our concepts of balance in government, of arrogant assertion of Washington infallibility instead of readiness to trust in the wisdom of the American people...
...long march to an Indian village, and were customarily brained against trees. Both sides took scalps as a matter of course, but on the whole the Indians behaved with more honor. They sometimes broke treaties, but did not as a rule murder ambassadors; a safe-conduct given by the frontiersmen, on the other hand, was almost worthless...
...President met in the green-carpeted Cabinet Room with what New Frontiersmen call the "quadriad" of Administration economic thinkers: Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, Budget Director David E. Bell and Walter W. Heller, chairman of the President's three-man Council of Economic Advisers. Also present were officials from the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission. What should be done? One possibility, quickly rejected, was to lower the margin requirement (the percentage of cash that a buyer has to put up to buy stocks) from the present 70%. The consensus was that...
That being the case, Byrd is determined that his committee will study the tax bill hard-and slowly. He recently insisted that the entire 254-page bill be read twice aloud to the committee. But even the New Frontiersmen admit that Harry Byrd, 74, is playing well within the rules. Last month Byrd could easily have got a committee vote against the proposed withholding tax. "He could have ruined us," says a White House official. "But he didn't. Why not? Because to do it then would have been to force a vote after only the most nominal sort...