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Last week Ike left his chair and charged into his first week of active politicking with the gusto of a veteran G.I. answering chow call. The week's high point came as a drumroll of applause beat up to the speaker's dais in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel. Ike flashed a Nixon-Lodge badge as big as a butter plate, grinned mightily, pumped his arms skyward in the familiar big V for the benefit of 40,000 Republicans, linked at fund-raising dinners in 36 cities by closed circuit TV. Then well aware that Republicans were...
...experience in domestic affairs, foreign relations and person-to-person diplomacy . . . man capable of calm decision in the midst of frenzy, a man who is neither intimidated by selfish pressure groups at' home nor tyrants abroad." It was all-out praise, and if political popularity can be transferred, Ike had certainly done his part to decide who would sit in his chair next...
...Ike proceeded to lob a couple of shells into the Democratic camp. Most of them were intended for Nominee Kennedy: "Leadership is not proved by a mere whirling across the public stage in a burst of campaign oratory. We do not want leadership that sees only dark continents of despair in American life. We do not want leadership that recklessly exhausts the rightful heritage of our grandchildren. We are against leadership that seeks to center all government in Washington...
...High Pie. In Philadelphia earlier, Ike told why he had dedicated his Administration to stopping "the spenders." Under Ike's four commandments, a government of fiscal responsibility shall...
Deficit spending, he warned, is "the way of the political coward" and a sure road to national weakness. In a barbed aside, Ike urged his receptive hearers (2,900 certified public accountants) not to be decoyed by "glittering political promises...