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...this were not enough to raise the hairs on Nixon's neck, Dwight Eisenhower himself was burning up the wires. The one man who could destroy Nixon with a word was warning by phone that the use of words like "bold" and "new" in the defense plank of the platform would be "falling into a trap." The statements. Ike said, were the unmistakable handiwork of his own former speechwriter, Emmet Hughes, who had quit the White House staff in disillusionment with his role there and now was Rocky's policy adviser (TIME, June 20). By using Rocky-Hughes...
Rubottom, the man nominally responsible for the earlier policy as head of the State Department's Latin American desk, was forced to walk the plank. He now becomes U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, will be succeeded by Thomas C. Mann, 47, another career diplomat. The U.S. is resolved (and committed by treaty) not to intervene militarily in Cuba. Raul Castro says, "We're not going to touch" the $76 million U.S. naval base at Guantanamo...
...treat the rights of Negroes lightly, and it is evident that it takes them very seriously indeed. It even mentions a year--1963--by which it plans to see at least first-step compliance with the Supreme Court's integration ruling in every affected school district. The foreign policy plank is made of equally stout stuff, giving the singularly honest assurance that "if meetings at high level offer prospects of success, we will be there...
...Estes implies, are out to even the score for the Kefauver Senate investigation of drug prices. Knowing his vulnerability on civil rights, the Keef prudently stayed away from the Los Angeles Democratic Convention, surmising that he might be tagged with partial responsibility for the all-out civil rights plank. Yet, though he was fighting for his political life in the same dogged fashion that he fought for the presidential nomination in 1952, and the vice presidential nod in 1956, Kefauver held fast to his principles...
Although Louisiana, perhaps dismayed at the convention's approval of the Nixon-endorsed civil rights plank, held on to ten Goldwater votes to the last, the Vice-President was nominated by acclamation immediately after the calling of the roll...