Word: ike
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Musically, Ike is nonpartisan. Like Jack Kennedy he enjoys Berlioz (his choice is the Symphonie Fantastique) and Moussorgsky's Boris Godunov. And he agrees with Vice President Nixon on his choice of music from Oklahoma...
Frosty Calm. Nikita Khrushchev would be coming to the U.S. only four months after he had broken up the Summit, personally insulted the President, slammed the door on the President's trip to Russia, and spurred Communist agitation in Japan against Ike's visit there. He would be sitting in the U.N., dedicated to peace and world order, in his capacity as the world's No. 1 international troublemaker, and representing a system, as Secretary of State Christian Herter said in a speech to the American Bar Association last week, that is "the central obstacle...
...Ike carried Louisiana in 1956, but, unlike Ike, Nixon cannot count on the pivotal voting power in the heavily Catholic downstate area and in the New Orleans Negro wards, which this time have been carefully cultivated by Mayor de-Lesseps Morrison's pro-Kennedy organization. In Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus could hurt Kennedy if he should sit on his hands-and so far he is sitting. South Carolina's fledgling Republicans are dreamily hoping for a Nixon victory because of South Carolina's wide respect for conservative Republican Barry Goldwater, who will stump the state for Nixon...
...Dick Nixon in the Senate and by Howard Smith in the House-all that remained of the original Kennedy-Johnson list of short-session "must" measures was the only genuine, non-politicking item in the lot: foreign-aid appropriations. At week's end, despite a stern warning from Ike that "a cut of this size will jeopardize the security of the country," both houses voted $3.7 billion for foreign aid-$560 million less than the President had asked for. (Afterward, the Senate Appropriations Committee recommended an additional appropriation to restore $190 million of the cut.) That done, Kennedy, Johnson...
...Mamie Eisenhower, reported her husband to a friend, is all out for Richard Nixon because she likes Pat. "Why," said Ike with a rocketing arm motion, "when Mamie thinks of Jackie Kennedy in the White House she goes 'Ssss...