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Needle for Coattails. Outwardly, as Kennedy sped swift as the hungry hummingbird through more than a dozen states, he showed no concern over the religion question (though he was prepared, if necessary, to go on TV to outline again his church-state philosophy). But his awareness of Ike's impact was implicit in a series of Kennedy shotgun blasts from rostrums everywhere. To counteract the spread of the President's warnings that a Democratic victory would bring a new wave of inflation, Kennedy issued a formal statement in Philadelphia promising "reasonable price stability" and pledging not to devalue...
Time and again, Kennedy needled Richard Nixon for clinging to Ike's coattails, challenged the Vice President waspishly to bring Ike along for a fifth TV debate. In California, Arizona and Illinois he gibed at the fact that Nixon, Ike, Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge and Governor Nelson Rockefeller had joined in a massive last-minute effort to win New York. "We have all seen these circus elephants, complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins," said Kennedy, "who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them. Dick Nixon...
...Place "observers" in the State and Defense departments and the Budget Bureau. Precedent is Harry Truman's election-night telegram to Ike in 1952: "Congratulations on your overwhelming victory . . . You should have a representative meet with the Director of the Budget immediately." (Ike did.) ¶Be prepared to offer a revised budget soon after inauguration. Candidate Nixon estimated that his program would cost nearly $5 billion more than President Eisenhower's, and Candidate Kennedy's avowed plans would presumably cost considerably more than Nixon's. ¶Appoint Cabinet members-not forgetting the gravely important presidential science...
...Ike's $39.2 billion defense budget by $662 million.' In recent weeks the Administration has been unfreezing these funds, plus millions more in unspent appropriations from previous years. Box score for new allocations since midyear...
Letter from Ike. All this did not go down well with those who recalled that sympathetic creditors, mostly U.S., for-gave over $1 billion in German prewar debts at the 1952 London Debt Conference, and that the U.S. Government agreed to wipe $2.2 billion in postwar aid debts off the books to help the Germans along. And though West Germany's defense depends largely on keeping U.S. and British troops stationed on its territory, the Germans have doggedly insisted on trimming their share of the costs of maintaining and supporting them. In 1958, German troop-support payments to Britain were...