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...left-wing Dictator Jacobo Arbenz in June 1954). At his press conference the President limited U.S. responsibility for the war talk of exiled Cubans eager to see Castro overthrown. "There will not be under any conditions," he said, "an intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces." But policymaking New Frontiersmen, convinced that the U.S. will be blamed for any anti-Castro revolt, were prepared to give solid assistance (short of troop support) to ensure that a coup does not fail. At week's end, as B-26s bombed Havana (see THE HEMISPHERE) the time for such help seemed drawing...
...arbitrating go-between for the White House, Pentagon and Budget Bureau. This time the budget work started from the recommendations of civilian task forces, continued through McNamara and then to the military chiefs and services (as a sort of courtesy ploy), and finally to the White House. The New Frontiersmen claim proudly that their approach to the budget is not so much "Vhat limit should be put on spending?" as "What do we have to spend to do what we have to do?" Nonetheless, the massive Pentagon requests are clipped just about as hard as before. Kennedy, said one aide...
...level trade and economic meeting, Canadian Finance Minister Donald Fleming and his delegation journeyed to Washington last week as a concession to the Kennedy Administration's busy schedule. Canada's thoughtful gesture, as it turned out, was just right. The visitors found President Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen eager to demonstrate that if Republicans could be receptive, Democrats could be downright friendly...
Action needs definition, and both press and politicians have been wondering what to call President Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen. In the first week, "pragmatic liberals" was the vogue. Then Doris Fleeson, den mother of the liberal columnists, thought she had a better term: "contemporary" Democrats. After the State of the Union speech, the New York Times chipped in with "cautious activist...
Southern Baptists responded with renewed evangelical fervor. With Scriptures in their saddlebags, they followed the frontiersmen West, baptized in rivers, creeks and cow ponds, worshiped in barns and shacks, staged hell-raising, Bible-banging revivals in tents and private homes. Clapboard churches, throughout the South and Southwest, became the architectural landmark of the Baptist advance for nearly a century. Any man who heard the call was encouraged to grasp a Bible and summon a crowd...