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...vacation rounds at Newport, prepared a message to be read at the first gavel bang, before Democrats had a chance to do their own politicking. "There is much important work still pending that cannot await the selection and assembly of a new Congress and a new Administration," said Ike. Of 27 measures that he had requested before Congress adjourned for the conventions, he pointed out, only six had been acted upon. He called for an aid-to-education bill, medical aid for the aged, "constructive" farm measures, an increase in the minimum wage. And he added a warning that...
Urging congressional support, Ike unwrapped two bold new programs of his own to "promote" free world stability. Both sound ideas, they had an unfortunate late-in-the-day, late-in-the-Administration sound about them. At the inter-American economic conference in Bogotá, Colombia next month, Eisenhower said, the U.S. would put forward a new $600 million loan program for Latin America. And to the U.N. General Assembly, he went on, the U.S. would soon present a new food-for-peace plan for using the agricultural abundance of the U.S. to "feed the hungry of the world," letting...
...would be in a state of drift from now until election time, and that the U.S. had already suffered a fall in prestige. French diplomats talked of "flottement" (vacillation) and the British of "vacuum." The politest way of expressing this was the London Daily Telegraph's feeling that Ike was a "consolidator," while Kennedy or Nixon would be "innovators." Under either Kennedy or Nixon, one ingredient of the Western alliance would soon be missing: the so-I-told-Winston and remember-back-in-Africa camaraderie that has linked Ike with De Gaulle and Macmillan. But almost everybody seemed ready...
...Kennedy drew on for his witty performance at last November's Al Smith Dinner, once discouraged a Nixon worker who approached him for a similar purpose. As for President Eisenhower, he has never heard of Mort Sahl -possibly because the comedian refers to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty as "Ike's right foot." But Sahl is no court jester to the Democrats; he often wounds Democrats and often amuses many Republicans (among them: Herb Brownell); he picks off any and all targets in what Kennedy last week called "his relentless pursuit of everybody." The Heavy Steel. As a topical...
...better than hold its own, with an exclusive of Ike at the Morrison Hotel breakfast and a fascinating scene in which Nixon and Rockefeller met for the first time in Chicago, Rocky wearing a Nixon button as big as his smile, patting "Dick" on the back with college-reunion gusto and proclaiming that "it will be a pleasure" to campaign for him. "If this isn't love, it'll have to do until the real thing comes along," observed Brinkley to Huntley. Once again NBC clearly outperformed CBS, and the ratings proved it; of the 14 million viewers...