Word: ike
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...mean," Ike cut in, "did I have some people at my house for dinner from the newspaper world...
...Ike will not propose the reorganization in time to do himself any good. Said he: "I'm not going to put it before the Congress until the final session when I'm here, because I am not going to do it with any thought that it is I who will profit...
...Ike was still highly disturbed about government-by-leak when he went to his press conference last week. Asked whether Secretary of State Christian Herter had discussed a new job for Bohlen. the President replied that Herter had twice brought up the newspaper stories, but "had done nothing about it," and added that "his report to me was completely negative." When an astonished reporter attempted to point out that Herter had confirmed at his own press conference that he was trying to persuade Bohlen to come to Washington, Ike angrily cut the question off, snapped: "I don't care...
...fact, had known and admired Chip Bohlen for years, had stood of Joe McCarthy and other powerful Senate Republicans (who grumbled that Russian-speaking Bohlen was a key figure at Yalta) to get him nominated in 1953 to Moscow. At week's end, after he simmered down, Ike by cable fired off statements of confidence to Bohlen in Manila. Chances were good that personable Chip Bohlen would eventually get his Washington job despite new grumbling from Republicans on Capitol Hill...
...nation's rapid surge from recession to boom without the big spending promised by the liberals in November, and 2) the failure of the attempts of Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler and the old-line liberals to force the congressional Democrats into a free-spending collision with Ike. Such a collision course, the liberals in Congress agree, would be foolish and unrealistic. Says one Senate liberal: "The Democratic National Committee is like a government in exile. They keep operating the same way even though they are out of power, but meantime the country changes...