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...Neil MacNeil rode with Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton on an official visit to a mental institution, and New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch went aboard a cancerbenefit gambling ship with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his bride. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele drove out to Gettysburg for a two-hour interview with an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. Reporter Steele found the former President profoundly committed to the proposition that another Republican should move into the White House in 1965, and equally convinced that the contest for the nomi nation should be wide open...
...spring of 1963 caught the U.S. by surprise. Now the Kennedy Administration finds itself hard up against its most urgent domestic crisis. Georgia-born Secretary of State Dean Rusk labeled it "one of the gravest issues that we have had since 1865." In a Memorial Day speech at the Gettysburg battleground, Vice President Lyndon Johnson said: "The Negro today asks justice. We do not answer him, and we do not answer those who lie beneath this soil when we reply to the Negro by asking 'Patience...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Brinkley views with alarm the deterioration of the national shrines at Gettysburg...
...everybody was at Palm Beach -and Kennedy was not the only U.S. political leader having thoughts. During the Washington dog days before the opening of Congress, New York Times Correspondent Felix Belair Jr. wandered up to Gettysburg, talked to Dwight Eisenhower, and came away with quite a story. Upon leaving the White House, Ike had vowed to devote much of his post-presidential retirement to applying the lessons of his experience to the nation's problems. Now he was ready with some warnings-and some specific proposals...
...duty at the Presidio in San Francisco, and Eisenhower, who has been on leave for nearly two years helping his father prepare his presidential papers, may be groomed for higher rank at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., only a short drive from the Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg...