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Battle Hymns & Electoral Votes. The week began amid a Dixieland band smash of Runnin' Wild! and Ain't She Sweet? as the President walked into a $100-a-plate Republican dinner at the Sheraton-Park Hotel with Mamie Eisenhower on his arm. Ike gave the 3,000 guests no soothing syrup...
...Washington as its first "nonpolitical speaker" in ages, Actor Ralph Bellamy, a superb young Franklin D. Roosevelt in Broadway's long-running Sunrise at Campobello, startled the ladies by opening with a political announcement. Said Bellamy forthrightly: "I'm a registered Democrat-but I voted for Ike...
...Ike gave the doctors the needle: "The medical profession, as much as any other, has a vital interest in preventing inflation. Certainly it wants to provide its services for a fee within the range of what people can reasonably pay. If the time ever comes when larger numbers of our citizens turn primarily to the Government for assistance in what ought to be and to remain a private arrangement between doctor and patient, then we shall all have suffered a tremendous loss...
President would be happy to dodge the fight by accepting Strauss's resignation. Replied Ike: "I wouldn't accept Lewis' resignation even if he offered it. You can go out and say that when you leave this room." Dirksen did-and with the battle lines thus firmly, flatly drawn, the confirmation of Lewis Strauss finally came to the Senate floor after months of wrangling and wrestling...
Finishing, Ike thanked the fascinated editors for their "patience" in "listening to a very homey exposition of some of my own views and convictions on this subject." Concluded the President: "They may not be very erudite, but they are earnest and firm." Last week, in a period of broad-ranging activity, the President also...