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...issues are astir, and no dominant personality such as F.D.R. or Ike, no overriding emergency such as World War or Great Depression looms on the November horizon to overshadow them. A historian of U.S. presidential elections might well have to go back to 1012, with its clashing tides of opinion on tariffs and regulation of Big Business, to find a presidential contest in which issues were as significant as they promise to be in 1060. So far no hopeful in either party has nailed together a complete issue platform (the closest: New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller - TIME...
...tables stretched from the 2.3-acre Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles to two banquet halls in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel for the biggest coast-to-coast dinner in U.S. history. In 43 states, more than 100,000 Republicans turned out for 83 fund-raising "dinners with Ike," at $24 to $100 a plate, to muster up $5,000,000 for the G.O.P. campaign treasury. All got the same no-frills bill of fare ("the kind of dinner that might have been served in a Kansas home around the turn of the century," as the menu...
Political Morticians. Ike's frankly political speech was couched in the form of a reply to Mrs. Shirley Jean Havens, 21, wife of Arvada (Colo.) Plumber William M. Havens, and mother of two. Last November she wrote the President asking for a statement of Republican principles. (Two months later she was tactfully scouted by Ike's old friend, Denver Banker Aksel Nielsen, who subsequently promised she would be answered by TV and swore her to secrecy.) "It is true," said Ike, "that government has to do many things which, individually, we cannot do for ourselves . . . But the principle...
...official U.S. appraisal of Castro, called him "not a Communist and certainly not an anti-Communist," but a violently anti-American nationalist being used by the Communists in an "intense" drive on Latin America. In Latin America, where Castro's prestige has been shrinking because of this fact, Ike's statement was cheered as wise handling of the problem...
Bouncing into Washington for a Democratic National Committee palaver, Harry Truman spoke more candidly about Dwight D. Eisenhower than he has done in the seven years since Ike succeeded him in the White House. Plain-talked Harry: "I've always been fond of Ike, as you'll find when my book [Mr. Citizen'] comes out, but I'm so happy he had to fire Sherman Adams and go to work...