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...disapproved, and 23% said they had no opinion about his actions and appointments in the period between his election and his inauguration. Eight years ago, Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, as registered at the same time and by the same standard, stood at 78% approval and only 4% disapproval; Ike left office with a still-remarkable 59% approval...
...Their Teeth." President Eisenhower had held firmly that the Government should stay out of labor disputes unless a national crisis was at hand. (One crisis: the 116-day steel strike of 1959-60, when Vice President Nixon pressured behind the scenes for a settlement.) To interfere in lesser cases, Ike believed, can weaken collective bargaining by tempting either side to stall in hope of getting a better deal through Government intervention-as during the Truman era, when labor made many breakthroughs at the cost of higher prices...
...G.O.P. Surplus. On the Republican side, both Ike and Nixon stand solidly behind the candidacy of the Eisenhower Administration's Labor Secretary James Mitchell. So does Republican U.S. Senator Clifford Case (although Case, no Nixonite, is fearful lest Mitchell appear to be too much a Nixon candidate, and has been trying to get an endorsement of Jim Mitchell from New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller). However, other things being equal, the balance of G.O.P. power in New Jersey is held not by nationally prominent Republicans but by county and district professionals. They have little love for Mitchell, claiming...
...gossipy memoir in McCall's magazine, Dwight Eisenhower's former Cabinet Secretary Robert Gray revealed that the tart tongue of ex-Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams did not always spare even Ike himself. Adams, wrote Gray, was inclined to be particularly waspish over the President's habit of slipping away in the afternoons ("Good God, is he playing golf again?") and at occasional presidential demands for ultra-swift action ("What does he think I am, a goddam gazelle...
PACIFIC AIR CARRIERS will get no more competition on current routes. Eisenhower turned down CAB recommendation that Pan American and Northwest Orient get parallel routes with each other and with foreign flag lines between U.S. and Japan. Ike feared new routes might "adversely affect" foreign relations, also found that forecast of only 17 revenue passengers a day in five years made further competition uneconomical...