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...nation's Capital, however, the reaction was far from critical. Eisenhower's suggestion drew a huge ovation in the first half-hour of his 7,000-word message, and set the legislators buzzing later with suggestions for writing it into...
That evening, indefatigable Dick Nixon made a second report, this time to the people. Over a half-hour nationwide radio-TV hookup, in his chatty manner, the Vice President described the problems and aspirations of Asian peoples, and their vulnerability to Communism. He said: "We shook hands with over 100,000 people . . . Why see these ordinary people? . . . We wanted them to know America, and we wanted to know them." Nixon recalled that the "very wise and very young" King of Siam had summed up his people's needs: military assistance, economic assistance and understanding. "Significantly enough, he told...
...next half-hour he sang his own ditties. Most of his songs gnawed and worried at a popular cliché until it was as grotesque as a Charles Addams cartoon. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie touted the sordid side of the Old South; a Love Song listed the discouraging aspects of senility. For the late show, the Lehrer lyrics got more gory and clinical, with a few interpretive asides by the entertainer (e.g., "The reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people"). When he finished, the audience happily howled for more...
...important interview, because they all came in grey-flannel suits--even the ones from Columbia and Manhattan Colleges. There were twenty-five of them, five from Harvard, crowded into a small room, and the room was painted grey and altogether it was a gloomy atmosphere. Every half-hour an older man in a blue pin-striped suit came in and called off a name. The name adjusted the knot of his tie and went into a room down the hall where five other men in pin-striped suits sat around a table deciding who was to get the Big Scholarship...
Dropping in for a half-hour's talk with President Eisenhower at the White House, ebullient Evangelist Billy Graham told Ike that people look upon the President "as a great spiritual leader more than a political leader." Thus, added Billy, "the nation is enjoying the greatest religious renaissance in history...