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...first tapped him for the big job, Len Hall has been carefully sorting out the professionals and organizing a basic training program for the amateurs who will work for Nixon. A longtime advocate of massive amateur movements, he has modeled the Nixon clubs after the highly successful Citizens for Ike organization. He has padded surefootedly on recruiting trips through Florida, North Carolina and Illinois in recent weeks, and his booming voice has reached out over the telephone to Washington, Oregon, Texas, New Hampshire and Iowa, to summon the faithful. In response to an urgent call from Hall, Seattle Mortgage Banker...
...beyond Vernon. He served as deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas, as chairman of the statewide board of education. In 1951 he sat on a commission set up by the president of Columbia University, Dwight David Eisenhower, to study manpower utilization during World War II. Ike was impressed. So was Anderson...
Rock Y. Brass. In 1952 Anderson wrestled down his longtime loyalty to the Democratic Party and backed Dwight Eisenhower for President. (Anderson finally changed his registration to Republican in 1955.) After the election, recalling Anderson from the manpower-commission days, Ike asked "Engine Charlie" Wilson, his nominee for Defense Secretary, to look Anderson over as a prospect. Wilson tapped Anderson to be Secretary of the Navy. "Charlie Wilson claims he discovered Bob Anderson," the President later told a Texas visitor. "Actually, I was the one who found him. If I had a dozen more like Bob Anderson, I could...
...candid bid for new ideas on U.S. policy toward Latin America, President Eisenhower last week appointed a six-man National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs, to be headed by Ike's brother Milton, head of Johns Hopkins University and longtime presidential watchdog on Latin American affairs. The President acted in the wake of worsening relations with Panama and Cuba...
...Human Nature Is Queer." Another big factor was the attitude of the steelworkers. Though some unions posted signs saying: "We shall return as slaves of Ike," and issued armbands emblazoned: "U.S.W. of A.-Ike's Slaves," the men were ready to work hard. U.S. Steel and others reported the workers' attitude "excellent." Said a foreman at Detroit's Great Lakes Steel: "Human nature is queer. There isn't any love feast between the workers and the company, but the guys in the plant have lots of pride and self-respect; they want to do a good...