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...floor, Kuchel attacked the society by name, saving his hardest words for Founder and Leader Robert Welch, a retired candymaker and self-styled Americanist, who rates Harry Truman, John Foster Dulles and Dwight D. Eisenhower, among others, as Communist agents or dupes. "Good God," roared Kuchel while rushing to Ike's rescue, "should the American people and the American Government let that kind of spleen be poured upon one who has given his whole life to freedom?" Connecticut's burly Tom Dodd, a conservative Democrat and tough antiCommunist, joined in. Welch's judgments, said...
That much public protest was more than Founder Welch had bargained for. At week's end, he asked the Senate internal security subcommittee to investigate the society, piously promised that "none of our members will plead the Fifth Amendment." He also denied that he had ever called Ike a "card-carrying Communist" or believed him to be a Red agent. "I never had that opinion; I never thought it then with firmness enough to publish it or to say it in public, and I don't today." Of course, Robert Welch admitted, he had written a "private, confidential...
Fidel Castro, in his dislike of President Eisenhower, used to jeer not only at Ike for playing golf, but also at the game itself, which he called the foolish pursuit of "the little ball." Last week, before turning the Colinas de Villareal Golf Club into a workers' social club, Castro and a couple of sidekicks decided to take a whack at the little white ball themselves. Castro clomped around the course in fatigues and combat boots, announced at the outset that he could beat President Kennedy. His right-hand man, "Che" Guevara, Moscow's favorite transplanted Argentine, allowed...
...York Stock Exchange Board of Governors permitting, Ike's Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, 50, next week will cut the U.S. unemployment count by one. New job of the sometime Canadian holding-company tycoon and Texas attorney: a limited partnership in the blue-chip Manhattan investment house of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades...
...Escalator. Laos had been a prime Kennedy concern since he met with Dwight Eisenhower the day before the inauguration. "This is one of the problems I'm leaving you that I'm not happy about," said Ike. "We may have to fight." Twice daily, and sometimes oftener, Kennedy has had briefings on the Laotian situation. Wandering restlessly through the White House one day, Kennedy muttered: "This is the worst mess the Eisenhower Administration left me." Three weeks ago, Kennedy asked his military chiefs: "Who runs this area for us?" Days later, the U.S.'s Pacific commander, Admiral...