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...grinned, joined heartily in renditions of Sweet Adeline and My Old Kentucky Home that rattled the ballroom chandeliers in Washington's staid Willard Hotel. But Dwight Eisenhower could hardly have been more serious when he finally stood up to speak to some 200 guests at a Republican National Committee dinner last week. Firmly and flatly, he placed the price of his endorsement of 1958 Republican congressional candidates at support for the three Administration programs he deemed "imperative" in meeting the challenge of Communism. The three: defense reorganization, mutual security and reciprocal trade...
...three, the foreign trade program was in the deepest trouble. Just how deep was indicated the day after the President's speech, when House Speaker Sam Rayburn summoned Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to Capitol Hill. Also present at the closed-door meeting were House Republican Leader Joe Martin and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. Rayburn's grim warning to Weeks: the foreign trade bill faces total defeat in the House unless the Administration backs away from its insistence on a five-year extension and increased presidential tariff-cutting authority...
Behind Rayburn's warning also lay a political ploy, aimed at shifting the responsibility for diluting the reciprocal trade bill from the Democratic Congress to the Republican Administration. Rayburn's friend and proteégeé, Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, suffered a humiliating defeat when the House recently voted down a dole-type unemployment-compensation bill approved by his Ways & Means Committee (TIME, May 12). Hopeful of succeeding Rayburn as Speaker one day, Mills was desperately anxious to avoid even the possibility of a similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also...
...hearing room of a House Post Office and Civil Service subcommittee last week, a reporter whispered a few words to Committeeman David Dennison, an Ohio Republican, who listened intently, broke into a grin and interrupted the testimony of Witness Arthur S. Flemming, president of Ohio Wesleyan University. "The White House." said Dennison, "has officially announced the appointment of Mr. Flemming as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare." Lean, painfully shy Arthur Flemming blinked in surprise, glanced hastily around the room as if in fear that there might be embarrassing applause. "Thank you, sir," he replied. "That's news...
Claussen's mother is a member of the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Massachusetts, which recently failed to grant the HEC a charter as a Republican organization. Claussen doubted if this had anything to do with the HEC decision, but stated, "As for the charter, they certainly do not deserve one, and no responsible Republican in this state would be in favor of giving them...