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...morning last week a group of White House correspondents and photographers trooped into President Eisenhower's office to wish him well on the occasion of his 70th birthday. "Around next January 18 or 19," a smiling Ike told them, "we'll all have to get together for a farewell party." One of the reporters who knew that he would not be around for that party asked to spend a few minutes with the President for an early farewell. The reporter: Charles Mohr, TIME'S White House correspondent since December 1957, who will soon leave for India...
When former Republican Gov. C. William O'Neill took office in 1956 behind the Eisenhower sweep, the state was almost entirely Republican, with the notable exception of Sen. Frank Lausche. O'Neill opened his term with a great faux pas unintentionally ignoring Ike's wave at the 1957 inauguration, and committed many more blunders before he was finished...
...there was ever a case where we did not have the law on our side, it was in the U-2 incident." Replied Nixon: Kennedy was wrong to expect that Khrushchev might have continued with the summit meeting even if the U.S. had expressed regrets, and that furthermore, Ike had been "defending the security of this country against surprise attack ... I don't intend to see to it that the U.S. is ever in a position where, while we're negotiating with the Soviet Union, that we discontinue our intelligence effort. And I don't intend ever...
...With scarcely so much as a nod to doctors-for-Nixon, the influential Christian Science Monitor-which supported Ike in 1952 and neither candidate in 1956 -endorsed Richard Nixon as the man more likely to give the U.S. "positive, progressive and skilled leadership...
...Ike '56 Nixon '60 Women 61% 51% Men 55 49 College 69 62 High school 58 48 Grade school 50 45 Independents 70 57 Professional men 68 63 White collar 63 55 Manual workers 50 39 21-29-year olds 51 42 30-49 years 55 47 50 years and over 61 55 Farmers 54 54 Protestants 63 61 Jews 25 19 Roman Catholics...