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...really worth punching. Then a reporter asked him whether he cared to comment on a letter that Dwight Eisenhower recently sent to Indiana's House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck. Eisenhower's letter urged "major surgery" on Kennedy's spending plans. The Administration's space program, Ike charged, is "downright spongy'' and wastes "enormous sums...
Kennedy did indeed care to comment. He had examined the Ike record, he said, and found it riddled with budget deficits, gold outflows, recessions and high unemployment. "That's not a record that we plan to duplicate if we can help...
...spongy space programs, Kennedy blamed his heavy space expenditures on Ike: "We are second in space today because we started late. It requires a large sum of money. I don't think we should look with equanimity upon the prospect that we will be second all through the '60s and possibly the '70s." And as for excessive spending elsewhere in the budget, Kennedy virtually claimed to be an economizer compared with Ike. "The fact of the matter is, in nondefense, non-space expenditures, we've put in less of an increase in our three years than...
...Beset by Stalemate." It was by far the hardest-punching attack that Kennedy has ever aimed at Ike. One reason for the surge of bellicosity was that Kennedy himself had been getting punched of late. The week's election news was worrisome. In Michigan, the voters adopted the new constitution that Republican Governor George Romney had been battling for, and the victory both brightened Romney's luster and dimmed the prospects that Kennedy will carry Michigan in 1964 as he did in 1960. In Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley, who helped Kennedy mightily in his close squeak...
...theme that he would get the nation "moving again." It is embarrassing to President Kennedy today to have his performance measured against that often reiterated campaign promise, and it might be highly embarrassing in 1964. That consideration helps explain the vigor of the President's attack on Ike. It would be safer to be measured in 1964 not against 1960 promises but against the performance of the Eisenhower Administration-that is. if Kennedy himself is doing the comparing...