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...Last week Attorney General Robert Kennedy requested authorization for 59 new federal judgeships. A Democratic Congress studiously ignored a similar request from Ike last year, but obviously will not ignore this...
...clucked that "the missile gap cannot be eliminated by the stroke of a pen." Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, the Democrats' chief defense specialist had charged: "A very substantial missile gap does exist and the Eisenhower Administration apparently is going to permit this gap to increase." Ike found the attacks so galling that in his final message to Congress last month he said: "The bomber gap of several years ago was always a fiction, and the missile gap shows every sign of being the same...
...reason that President Kennedy could not do more was that President Eisenhower had already done much. The Eisenhower Administration had extended unemployment coverage, broadened social security benefits and taxes and speeded up federal procurement. Indeed Ike had arranged things so that new Government contracts will leap by $10.7 billion this fiscal year, to $86 billion...
...President's office, the pale green walls were newly painted minutes after Ike moved out, but Kennedy ordered them repainted-in white. The two red couches were sent out to be re-covered in tan. Ike's gold-eagle bookends stayed on the presidential desk, but between them now are a Bible, The World Almanac, and two of Author Jack Kennedy's own books: The Strategy of Peace and Profiles in Courage. Some of the President's recent reading-Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung and New York Herald Trib-man Bob Donovan's Inside...
...College campus. In addition, his staff of 15 maintained a five-room Washington headquarters, where mail still comes in at the rate of 1,900 pieces a day. Among last week's items: a fluffy, fly-chasing yak's tail, sent by a Himalayan guide who knew Ike's name but titled him "Big Chief All American Villages...