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...herself with equal determination. Even when it became clear that she could have a White House wedding if she wished, she stuck firmly to her idea of keeping the ceremony private. With the guest list and other details a closely kept secret, she and Dwight David Eisenhower II, Ike's grandson, will be married Sunday at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...
Before flying off to visit troops in Viet Nam, Evangelist Billy Graham paid a call at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for a few words with former President Dwight Eisenhower. As Graham recalls it, Ike had a message for the G.I.s, delivered with tears streaming down his cheeks: "You're going to Viet Nam. Tell those doughboys that here at Walter Reed is an old soldier pulling for them and praying for them." Said Graham: "I was touched. I had never seen him cry before...
...earliest days of the President-elect's political career, is not assuming the more traditional role of White House press secretary. That job will be filled by Ronald Ziegler, 29, a former California advertising account executive (Disneyland was his chief project) with neither political nor journalistic experience. Unlike Ike's James Hagerty or L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers and George Christian, Ziegler has never been close to his boss, and is not expected to participate in the high counsels of government...
...Douglas Dillon, John Kennedy's Secretary of the Treasury and an Under Secretary of State under Eisenhower, was thought to be a favorite for Secretary of State. David Rockefeller, head of the Chase Manhattan Bank, and Arthur Burns, a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Ike, were both reasonable bets for Secretary of the Treasury. Republican National Chairman Ray Bliss may become Postmaster General, which would let Nixon put his own man atop the G.O.P. apparatus. Michigan's Governor George Romney or Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond Shafer could be named Secretary of Commerce...
...lift of a very different nature-strictly nonpolitical-should be buoying Nixon in the near future. The new First Family announced last week that Julie Nixon and Ike's grandson, David Eisenhower, will be married Dec. 22 in Norman Vincent Peale's Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan...