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...Oveta Gulp...
...staff were sworn in. Two hours later, Ike walked over to a more elaborate ceremony in the great East Room of the White House. There, before full-length portraits of George & Martha Washington, Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in the members of the Cabinet-plus Federal Security Administrator Oveta Gulp Hobby and minus unconfirmed Erwin Wilson. A Cabinet member's commission must be signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of State. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was sworn first, and his commission was countersigned by interim Secretary H. Freeman Matthews. Thereafter, Dulles countersigned...
...York Dress Institute's annual list of the world's ten best-dressed women was increased to twelve this year, because heavy balloting for two newcomers resulted in a tie for eleventh place. The newcomers: Mamie Eisenhower and Oveta Gulp Hobby, recently appointed boss of the Federal Security Agency in the Eisenhower Cabinet. No. 1 on the list for the tenth year: the Duchess of Windsor...
Another appointment of near-Cabinet rank helped repay Ike's political debts to two important groups of supporters: 1) the women; 2) Southern Democrats for Ike. For Federal Security Administrator he picked Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, Houston publisher and first commander of the WAC, and invited her to sit in on Cabinet meetings because of the "vital importance of her position"-supervising the Social Security program and a clutch of welfare offices including the Public Health Service, the Office of Education and the Food and Drug Administration...
...Oveta Gulp Hobby, editor and executive vice president of the Houston Post, head of the Women's Army Corps during World War II, who announced for Ike four months before the political conventions, published a "political primer" which was instrumental in getting pro-Eisenhower Texans into the G.O.P. precinct conventions last spring. During the campaign, she headed the national Democrats-for-Eisenhower movement...