Word: lukewarm
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...backing down on some implicit pre-election promises. One victim of the policy was Joseph D. Keenan, international secretary-treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and a loyal Democratic campaigner. Kennedy had Keenan in mind as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, but when McNamara proved lukewarm, the President decided not to press his choice. After he vetoed Keenan for the Defense Department post, McNamara attempted to soothe hurt labor feelings by calling on A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, assuring him that "I'm not anti-union." Meany was unmoved and unsoothed. Said he: "His visit...
Equal Treatment. There was sufficient pretext to demand Colmer's ouster: he had given his lukewarm support to the anti-Kennedy electors in Mississippi. Reprisals are not unheard of in such situations, but the recent tendency has been for the Congress to forgive its prodigal sons. In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage. (In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive...
Hirohito's problem has been to convert adulation into affection. With the older generation, he seems to have succeeded. And with the new generation of princes and princesses coming into the limelight, the postwar antipathy of young Japanese for royalty seems to be changing to tolerance or even lukewarm approval. Emperor No. 124 of the 2,621-year dynasty looked secure in his seat, and there...
...active in Ann Arbor civic work. McNamara is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, practices such stern business ethics that he refuses all Christmas gifts from business contacts, rents a car on vacation rather than borrow one from the company pool. In politics, McNamara is a lukewarm, liberal Republican who often contributes to Democratic candidates. This year he voted for Kennedy...
California-Democrats are ahead 3 to 2 in voter registration, but Nixon leads the polls. Stevenson Democrats in vote-heavy Southern California are lukewarm for Kennedy. The Democratic organization is sundered into half a dozen wings. By contrast, Nixon has crafted an able cadre of workers since 1946, and they have overcome the chaos left by the Knight-Knowland fight for the gubernatorial nomination in 1958. Khrushchev is a big issue, and Cabot Lodge is warmly regarded. On his home grounds, Nixon leads...