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...approve Ike's sending a boy to trade boasts and boos with expert bogeyman Khrushchev. A less mouthy ball carrier would have been better...
...despite such misgivings, most citizens agreed with Ike that it was worth a Sunday try. "I think it's damned healthy," said Minneapolis Contractor Don Knutson as he thought about the visit. "Whether it's Government or business, you've got to evaluate your competition." Added Mel Costa, a proprietor of a Detroit steakhouse: "If he means peace, I say O.K., let him come. If he doesn't mean peace, the hell with him. We got to show these people we mean business...
...Congress last week tried to override a presidential veto-and for the fifth time it failed. Last week's Senate vote of 55-40, nine short of the two-thirds majority needed to override, came on the $1,375,000,000 housing bill, which Ike had vetoed in his battle to keep the nation's budget in balance. The issue was forced by the Senate's Democratic liberals, desperately anxious to get out from under the President's firm fiscal thumb. In insisting on an attempt to override, they exposed themselves and their party...
German Fears. The jostling was most apparent in Konrad Adenauer's actions. Originally, he was to meet Ike in London after the President had seen the others, but as he explained to his advisers: "I would either have been compelled to accept what the other three had agreed on in their previous meetings, or, if I disagreed with their plans, I would be saddled with the odium of disturber of the peace." So Eisenhower will see Adenauer first in Bonn next week. In anticipation, the President's personal pilot, Colonel William A. Draper, test-landed Ike...
...Common Market nations, Britain increasingly feels itself odd man out in Western Europe, and considers this not the result of British unwillingness to pay the price of European membership but the fault of Adenauer's and De Gaulle's alliance. Prime Minister Macmillan, seeing Ike alone at Chequers, was expected to spend some of his time deploring not Khrushchev's behavior but De Gaulle's, and urging increased U.S. pressure on De Gaulle to "reopen Europe's doors...