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...Philadelphia Inquirer told it last week, Dwight D. Eisenhower had picked his favorites for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. In conversation with "political intimates," wrote Reporter Joseph H. Miller, Ike had made it clear he would happily support any one of four men - Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, Michigan's Governor George Romney, Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton or retired General Lucius Clay. What made the list notable was the conspicuous absence of the current front runners, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...Inquirers story, an Eisenhower aide reported, got Ike "vexed to beat hell." Nonetheless, he waited four days to make his reply. Then Ike dispatched messages to both Rockefeller and Goldwater, as well as to G.O.P. congressional leaders and the Republican National Committee. He has no favorites, Ike insisted. The party, he said, is fortunate in having a number of "highly popular and able" potential candidates. "I'm for each and against none...
...mark the anniversary of the first Telstar broadcast, CBS last week presented Town Meeting of the World, bouncing the faces and voices of Dwight Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Jean Monnet and Heinrich von Brentano off the orbiting Telstar II. Ike was in Denver, Eden in London, Monnet in Brussels, Brentano in Bonn. Anchor Man Walter Cronkite was in New York...
Nothing was said that should be written in marble, but it really was a kind of town meeting. International problems, from food surpluses to Sino-Soviet relations, were talked over in an offhand, idiomatic way. "I want to tell you, Anthony," said Ike to Eden, "that we will be there if you people ever get in trouble. You know that...
...program had its dull stretches of vintage cant, it also had some sharp disagreement, as when Monnet insisted to Eden that Britain should give up control of her nuclear bombs to NATO. Ike jumped in, supporting Eden's no-no position, saying: "It gets to be a matter of principle around here...