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When McCormack mounted the rostrum to voice his thanks and to take the oath of office (administered by Georgia's Carl Vinson, the dean of the House), his smile flickered. It was a supreme moment for John McCormack-one he had dreamed of for half his life. Yet McCormack could sense a melancholy and a reserve in the House mood...
...President's State of the Union message, to be delivered to Congress this week. In Palm Beach, the President reviewed the Sorensen outline, penciled in copious notes and packed Sorensen off to the Palm Beach Towers hotel to draft the actual speech. When Kennedy takes the rostrum of the House of Representatives, his tone will be one described as "cautious optimism...
Less Than Omnipotent. Kennedy has come to realize that national and international issues look much different from the President's chair than from a candidate's rostrum. There are fewer certainties, and far more complexities. "We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy, quick or permanent solutions," he said recently in Seattle. "And we must face the fact that the U.S. is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, and that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution for every world problem...
...case at the U.N., he ran true to form. Asked during a London stopover if Mahatma Gandhi would have approved of the Goan invasion, Menon snapped: "Well, he's not here, is he?" A possible clash between Menon and the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson from the rostrum of the General Assembly was avoided when the two men met in private, thus depriving the Assembly of a spectacular verbal display...
Unbridled Power. But preceding the U.S., Nationalist China's Ambassador Tingfu Tsiang went to the rostrum, and Zorin led the other Communist bloc delegates in a walkout from the General Assembly. Tsiang dismissed the Communist regime as "un-Chinese in origin, nature and purpose." Reviewing the grim record of Red tyranny on the mainland. Tsiang urged that tears be shed "over the suffering" of the Chinese people rather than for "their lack of representation...