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Politics. A longtime Democrat and friend of Texas Democratic politicos (including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn), Anderson backed Ike in 1952, switched his registration to Republican in 1956. In general outlook, Anderson could well serve as a model Eisenhower Republican. George Humphrey, who became an Anderson friend and admirer through Cabinet contacts, recommended him as the best man for the Treasury...
...Washington's political spectrum, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Minnesota's Stevensonian Democrat Hubert Humphrey are many shades apart. Yet last week Senator Humphrey and Secretary Dulles emerged arm in arm from a conference at Dulles' home in which Dulles heaped laurels on Humphrey. Reason: so sharp an impression of U.S. interest had Humphrey created during a four-week tour of Europe and the Middle East, so well did he defend U.S. policy there, that diplomatic cables into Foggy Bottom were buzzing with well-dones...
...Humphrey's role as traveling defender of Dwight Eisenhower was no sudden switch. Appointed U.S. delegate to the United Nations last year, Humphrey roamed U.N. lounges asking questions about world affairs, frequently ended up explaining and defending U.S. foreign policy. Roaming Spain, Italy, Greece, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt last month, he kept asking questions, kept speaking out for U.S. policy. In the process Humphrey learned some new facts of Middle East life...
Landing in Arab countries he found himself looked on suspiciously as a Zionist because he is a liberal Democrat and political clansman of Harry Truman, who had recognized Israel the day the tiny state was established. Humphrey conquered suspicion by listening attentively, answering Arab complaints with clear-cut definitions of U.S. aims, letting his hosts have the last word. The Arabs came to accept him as no Zionist, but a man of understanding and sympathy...
Great Document. Humphrey's high point was a three-hour conference with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Humphrey soon discovered that Nasser knew very little about Eisenhower. He had, he said, read Crusade in Europe. Asked Humphrey: "Have you read President Eisenhower's second inaugural address?" When Nasser replied "No," Humphrey sent round to the U.S. Embassy for a copy, advised Nasser to read "one of the greatest documents for peace ever written." Said Humphrey: "Eisenhower seeks to dominate no one, and it appears to me that anyone who really wants peace in the world...