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...Vote of Confidence. But always, despite the serious intention of talking about economics, that pesky problem of Cuba kept popping up. Arriving in San Jose the day before Kennedy. El Salva dor's President Julio Rivera spoke to his greeters with a grim quip: "Let us first have a minute of silence for me. Castro said I would be dead by now." In his first statement to the Presidents, Kennedy eloquently reiterated the anti-Castro theme: "At the very time that newly independent nations rise in the Caribbean, the people of Cuba have been forcibly compelled to submit...
...House Administration Committee met to consider Powell's request for $697,000 to run his committee for the next two years. Powell, as usual, was not in Washington. He had last been noted there on Feb. 26, when he bounced into a subcommittee meeting with a complaining quip: "I shouldn't be here. I have the Asian flu-or should I call it the Afro-Asian flu?" With Powell away, the House Administration Committee recommended that Powell should not have a two-year allotment at all. It would give him just $200,000 for the first year...
...prizewinner for his work on the Korea and Suez crises at the U.N., Pearson is respected at home and abroad. But he is hardly the knock-'em-dead campaign politician. He seemed out of place before large rallies, despite a talent for the bright line and the quick quip. When Diefenbaker grandly announced that he would not debate against his competitors on TV because "I have no competitors," Pearson found it "a trifle egotistical of him. In the most kindly way, I would suggest to him that he must not let failure go to his head...
...Detroit. Flint and Muskegon, Kennedy seemed to enjoy battling for the underdog Democratic Governor John Swainson against Republican George Romney. Scorning Romney's attempts to lure Democratic votes. Kennedy drew cheers with the quip: "One of the most interesting political phenomena of our time is to see Republican candidates in various states who run for office and say 'elect the man.' You can't find the word Republican on their literature-and I don't blame them." A different kind of sign greeted Kennedy in Detroit. Said one: "Congratulations J.F.K. on Mississippi Stand...
...mental-health programs, Di Salle persuaded a Democratic legislature to raise state taxes by some $310 million during his first two years in office. Corporations, motorists, bar patrons, smokers were among those who got hit hardest where it hurts most. Gas-station attendants would collect from a driver and quip: "That's $3-$2.50 for me and 50? for Di Salle." In 1960, Ohio's voters made it plain what they thought about the whole business. Di Salle was a preeminent Kennedy supporter, and in Ohio the presidential issue was less Kennedy v. Nixon than Di Salle...