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Last week, at the regular White House meeting between Ike and Republican congressional leaders. Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen mentioned the buzzing rumors-false, like so many rumors in the Strauss affair-that...
...spur-of-the-moment party out to see the Washington Senators win a close one (7-6) from the Boston Red Sox. got two autographed baseballs (one after a homer) from Senator Slugger Harmon Killebrew to give to grandson David. Ike laughed at a photographer's suggestion that Press Secretary James Hagerty, a dedicated New York Yankee fan, ought to replace cellar-dwelling Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. Quipped the President: "He couldn't do much worse...
...drive for a balanced budget. Only by maintaining a strong, healthy domestic economy, he said, could the U.S. maintain its world leadership. With spending bills blooming in every congressional committee room, the President's budget seemed as doomed as a wounded impala before a pack of hungry leopards. Ike's no-retreat stand has helped ward off the fiscal marauders ; the economic boom has made pump-priming seem fatuous. Yet, most of all, under Charlie Halleck's House leadership, spending bill after spending bill has been either trimmed to size or killed by vetos the Democrats could...
...Administration. As never before. Congressmen are informed about Administration aims, and the President gets an accurate and detailed picture of congressional sentiment. Under Halleck's predecessor. Massachusetts' doughty old (74) Joe Martin, and the Senate's obstructionist G.O.P. Leader William Knowland, it hardly seemed possible for Ike to keep his congressional fences in good or der. This year, with Halleck, and with Illinois' Everett Dirksen replacing Knowland in the Senate, the Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill work as an effective team. The weekly legislative conference has passed from pain to pleasure. "These...
...Ike's new adviser, Scientists' Scientist Kistiakowsky can be expected to take up where James Killian left off. He should be helped by a high sense of mission. Says one of George Kistiakowsky's closest friends: "His first interest is in science, and to give up [lab work] for a while is very hard for him. He does think scientists have a very heavy responsibility to the nation, and I think that's been the overriding fact with...