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...combat-ready mood, too, at his first press conference in four weeks, firmly got off his answers on a lot of subjects. Said Ike...
...Freely Confess." Republicans got in the first telling thrust. After huddling with Nixon, Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen proposed a bill to restore what Ike's message had called the "two major deletions" in the civil rights bill that Congress passed last April: extra federal money for states, localities and school districts working toward desegregation, and a permanent commission to combat discrimination in hiring by Government contractors. When Democrats accusingly pointed out that Dirksen had voted against both proposals last spring, he oracularly confided: "I freely confess my sins of omission and commission...
Medical Insurance for the Aged. House passed an Administration-backed "Medicare" bill for voluntary health insurance subsidized by limited matching federal-state grants. Senate Democratic liberals want a compulsory plan financed by an increase in social security levies. If the Democratic bill looks too costly, Ike may veto...
...Ike's First Election: We need a man on a white horse. Well, we got the horse, but there's nobody...
...once called John D. Rockefeller "a kind iv society f'r th' prevention iv croolty to money," and had a skill at reworking slogans that has turned up again in Sahl. "Hands acrost th' sea and into somewan's pocket," said Dooley. Sahl rallied for Ike with the line: "He kept us out of Mars...