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...Nixon Convair landed at the Birmingham airport, but people ran out of factories and office buildings to line the curb as Nixon's blue convertible came into the city. Firecrackers boomed and swirls of paper floated down from office windows. A crowd of 15,000-as big as Ike's in 1952-filled Woodrow Wilson Park and spilled into adjoining streets to hear the Vice President speak...
Beyond Magnolias. Southern states that Nixon has an even chance of winning are Virginia, where Patriarch Harry Byrd has yet to speak a kind word for Kennedy; North Carolina, where Ike four years ago lost by only 16,000 votes and Nixon interest is running high since his Greensboro visit; Florida, where Republicans are strong and Democrats are feuding; Kentucky and Oklahoma, each with considerable religious sentiment running; Tennessee, which has long had a traditional Republican belt in the east and now has an additional G.O.P. vote in the cities; and Texas, where Lyndon Johnson's home-state appeal...
Except for four "nonpolitical" speaking engagements-three in one day (Sept. 26) in Philadelphia and Manhattan, one in Detroit (Oct. 17)-and two televised political speeches, one on election eve. Ike's campaign schedule is far from firm, but his strategic approach has already been settled on. His No. 1 campaign task: wooing the independents whose help Nixon needs most. Even in avowedly political speeches, the White House indicated, Ike would not attack Democrats in general. "New Dea: Democrats" or "spending Democrats" (both bad) would be contrasted with "discerning Democrats" (who might be won to Nixon...
...serving his second term as JCS chairman (he stayed on at Ike's behest), Air Force General Nate Twining, 62, will retire before his term expires next August, the White House announced last week. Twining underwent surgery for lung cancer last year and for a ruptured appendix in February. Likely successor: Army Chief of Staff Lyman L. Lemnitzer (TIME cover...
Bouncing among the other political footballs on Capitol Hill last week was a request from President Eisenhower to create 40 additional federal judgeships. Because he thought the need urgent, Ike offered to split appointments evenly between parties. In no such hurry, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson answered that there was no time in so short a session to select and confirm new judges. "Most regrettable," rumbled Attorney General William P. Rogers. Johnson, he charged, was ignoring "thousands of Americans who are denied justice because of delay...