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...allies, and the black backdrop of Communism were all the same. But the President of the U.S., who came before a joint session of Congress this week to deliver his message on the State of the Union, was different. Before Dwight Eisenhower had flipped four pages of his looseleaf notebook, the difference came clear. It was a new grasp of the nature of the challenge before the U.S., and in the grasp the problems themselves seemed less awesome...
...nervously as if he were a time bomb-made some major speeches off the cuff. That way his sincerity came through, but Ike was not used to the split-minute timing necessary for television, sometimes rambled on, made some blunders. Ike finally settled on a prepared text in a looseleaf notebook from which he reads, with occasional ad libs. His delivery has improved astonishingly, but he still swallows the ends of his sentences and runs over his applause...
Poking through a few old corners of the federal household, General Service Administrator Jess Larson had come across signs of bureaucratic hoarding that would put the squirrels to shame. Samples: one U.S. bureau had a 247-year reserve of looseleaf binders (but only 168 years' worth of filler paper for them); another had a nine-year supply of tracing paper; a third had stored away enough light bulbs to supply it for 93 years...
Then he turned to Communist China as calmly as he turned the pages in the looseleaf notebook before him. The department took a "serious view," he said, of the "flimsy pretext used by the local authorities" to prevent the homecoming of General Robert B. Soule, the U.S. military attache. "The U.S. Government does not countenance negotiations under duress and will not authorize its representatives in China to submit to such pressure...
While Congress debated the military assistance program, the final outlines of MAP had gradually taken shape in half a dozen-looseleaf notebooks in a second-floor office of the State Department. There, listed item by item, with the quantity and price of each, were precise allocations of military arms to each MAP country. Last week MAP planners combed through the notebooks and cut out $160 million worth of low-priority items to fit the $1 billion program authorized by Congress for the Atlantic Treaty nations...