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...would sum up the accomplishments of his Administration to date, and hammer home the need for completing his program. Cabinet members and department heads were instructed to submit by Oct. 15 their lists of achievements and specific requests for new legislation. The man who would coordinate everything: Kevin McCann, 51. president-on-leave of Ohio's Defiance College, Ike's biographer (Man from Abilene), and currently White House Assistant for Speeches and Reports...
...bureaucracy came a book-size pile of research. McCann read it all, occasionally marking a paragraph or a thought he considered worthy of inclusion...
...McCann headed west to visit the President, recuperating from his heart attack in Denver's Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Settling back in his plane seat, McCann began to scratch out in pen and ink the first, 400-word outline of the State of the Union message. He put down five subject headings: 1) "World Responsibility," which later grew to "The Discharge of Our World Responsibility"; 2) "National Security," which became "The Constant Improvement of our National Security"; 3) "Fiscal Integrity"; 4) "Our Production Plant," for which the President substituted "To Foster a Strong Economy"; 5) "Human Resources," which became...
...counsel to the House of Representatives, now helps draft Administration bills and acts as legal adviser to the President. Administrative Assistant Gabriel Hauge, 41, is the staff's economic specialist. A onetime economics instructor at Harvard and Princeton, he is a former editor of Business Week. Speechwriter Kevin McCann, 51. on leave as president of Ohio's Defiance...
...personal economic adviser, met with Ike and got his approval of a domestic Point 4 program (see above). One morning the President worked for 45 minutes on a draft of his 1956 State of the Union message, with Presidential Assistants Sherman Adams and "Jerry" Persons and Speechwriter Kevin McCann. Each day he read Secretary Dulles' reports from Geneva. The number of documents signed by the President increased from a trickle of papers of top importance to an almost-normal flow...