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...took no chances. Out of the White House flowed a series of crisp and rippling decisions, a new urgency of diplomatic cables and phone calls. Through the lobby on the way to the President's office hustled so many VIPs-Vice President Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., CIA Director Allen Dulles, Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Arthur Radford, et al. -that White House reporters lost count. Out from Atlantic ports steamed a carrier task force headed by the 60,000-ton Forrestal, while in San Diego seamen worked all night beneath glaring floodlights...
...Washington's well-geared diplomatic machinery shifted smoothly last week to meet each crisis in Hungary or the Middle East, night lights burned long in the fifth-floor State Department suite of a man laboring earnestly to help dictate the shifts. Herbert Hoover Jr., Acting Secretary of State while his chief recuperated in Walter Reed Hospital, had pushed his normal twelve-hour workday to 15 and 18 hours, was gaining extra confidence with each extra duty...
...Secretary since September 1954, the former President's handsome, six-footer son helps supervise a 12,000-man department, scoops off as many of Dulles' burdens as he can, shares with the Secretary the white-tie social obligations. Last week, in addition to these normal assignments, Herbert Hoover Jr. headed daily conferences of the department's top planners, represented State at the National Security Council, and briefed congressional leaders on a turbulent world. Twice a day he made rapid visits to Walter Reed for on-the-spot discussions with John Foster Dulles; two or three times...
Rough Path. The week's accomplishments spread new polish on a State Department career that so far has not been easy. An engineer like his father, and a Middle East oil expert as well, Hoover was swept into his post after a piece of spectacular diplomacy in 1954. Iran and England were at angry odds over revenues from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s nationalized oilfields. Dulles chose Hoover to find common ground, asked him to find it in 45 days. The 45 days stretched to eleven months; Hoover winged constantly between Washington, London and Teheran, eventually hammered...
...long, O Lord, how long!'' muttered a New York Stevensonite, in wry memory of the 1956 Democratic keynote speech. The answer seemed to be: until the last returns from the Coast. West Virginia came in for Eisenhower, voting Republican for the first time since going for Hoover against Smith in 1928. Los Angeles waited for San Francisco to record a slight margin for Stevenson (ascribed by West Coast commentators in part to Nixon's unpopularity there), then slapped it down with a smart plurality for Ike and Dick. With a jolt, South Carolina Democrats noted that they...