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...Republican talk of getting New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller to run with Nixon. But Rocky stiffly announced that he had turned down a chance to second Nixon's nomination, and that he would not consider the vice-presidential nomination even if it were offered by Ike...
...after President Eisenhower's news conference last week, "and it tends to lose its importance -just like your mail." From the U-2 to the summit collapse to the Tokyo riots to Cuba's deepening Red hue, headline had piled upon headline in the eight weeks since Ike's last press conference. But, relaxed and tanned, the President made his way through the backlog of questions as though they were last year's mail...
...Ike has no intention of treating the presidential campaign as a dead letter. Staff members are preparing a series of speeches, beginning with a July 26 address at the G.O.P. Convention, in which he will renew his fight for fiscal responsibility. Congress, reconvening after the conventions, can expect a sharply worded message warning against lavish spending. And the President intends to participate fully in the presidential campaign this fall...
...vacation in Newport, President Eisenhower got busy with a tough reply. Khrushchev's statement, said Ike, "underscores the close ties that have developed between the Soviet and Cuban governments." Then he firmly laid down an Eisenhower amendment to the Monroe Doctrine: "The U.S. will not permit the establishment of a regime dominated by international Communism in the Western Hemisphere...
When President Eisenhower last week decided to give Fidel Castro his lumps, he set off a flurry of excitement on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, clearinghouse for much of the world's sugar. Just before Ike announced a slash of 700,000 tons in the amount of sugar that the U.S. would buy from Cuba during the rest of 1960, world sugar prices dropped 3 to 8 points, i.e., hundredths of a cent a pound, in expectation of the cut -and in fear that Cuba would dump its surplus sugar on the world market. Instead, Cuba raised...