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Next day the President sent ripples of concern spreading around the world with a sweeping presidential directive designed to slow the U.S.'s gold outflow by curbing U.S. spending overseas. "A definite improvement in our balance-of-payments situation is mandatory," said Ike, "not only to insure our economic well-being and military security here at home, but also to insure that the U.S. can continue as a strong partner in the future economic growth and military strength of the free world...
Even as Dwight Eisenhower's Republican Party was losing the 1960 election, 58% of the U.S. public, according to a Gallup poll taken in late October, approved of the way he was doing his job. Ike's popularity has averaged an astonishing 61% throughout his last year in office. By contrast, Harry Truman's popular backing in October...
...promised: "My Liberal-Democratic Party will have precisely such a New Frontier program in Japan." In response. Socialist Eda insisted that it was he, not Ikeda, who was just like Kennedy -"flexible and progressive." In all the excitement. Eda seemingly had forgotten his party's role in the "Ike, stay home" riots as well as the fact, tartly pointed out by Tokyo's Sankei Shimbun, that, unlike many of his Japanese admirers. "Mr. Kennedy is neither a socialist nor a Communist, neither pro-Russian nor neutralist...
...Johnson and his wife Lady Bird in a Dallas hotel lobby, spat at him, roughed up his wife's hair. Johnson therefore played the martyr's role like an old pro. Dallas County stayed as Republican as ever-Nixon got 149,333 votes, 23,972 more than Ike's 1956 mark-but in the central and east Texas rural areas and in some of the smaller Texas cities, the Democratic ticket picked up steadily, and Bruce Alger's blunder made a big difference. One top Nixon adviser insists that it even helped lose South Carolina, where...
...abroad. Responding to heavy pressure from the Eisenhower Administration, West Germany lowered its discount rate from 5% to 4%, and its bank rates for loans from 6% to 5%, thus weakening a magnet that has been drawing gold from the U.S. Kennedy seems sure to insist strongly, as did Ike, that West Germany and other U.S. allies help more in defending the free world against Communism, thus relieving the U.S. of some of its heavy foreign spending...