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...three months of the campaign, traveled 30,000 miles and walked two pairs of soles off his shoes. Last week, by a vote of 147,438 to 35,085, he walloped one-term (1954-57) Governor Fred Hall, who had thoroughly split the party in 1956 to lose his second-term bid to Democrat George Docking...
Donning blue suit and shirt of television blue, President Chamoun called Western reporters and cameramen to his palace to repeat his charge that the rebellion was fomented from Damascus and Cairo, and to proclaim unyieldingly on the second-term issue: "I have never said I would run, and I would never say I would...
...President Eisenhower during his second Administration that prevents his matching his earlier personal performance? In the sense of some sort of secret illness, the answer is no. As he had from his heart attack and his ileitis operation, the President made a remarkable recovery from his stroke last November; his doctors say that recovery is now complete and that, beyond a bothersome cold, he has suffered no other illnesses. But in another sense the answer is yes: President Eisenhower is 67; the cumulative effect of his three major illnesses has sapped his second-term strengths. Chief result: even when...
Balance of Power. The miracle of T.R.'s second-term domestic struggles is that he won them while actually concentrating on foreign policy, while putting in the most definitive display of world peacekeeping by power politics that the U.S. had ever known. In T.R.'s second term the world stage was vaster than the Caribbean. World powers were in the mood for adventures. Secret treaties were being signed. The adolescent machine gun would cause untold loss of life. So T.R. began to move his ships and his diplomats in consort to try to head off history...
...Phil Hart, easygoing Charlie Potter will discover a serious threat to second-term ambitions. Pennsylvania-born Hart is, like Potter, a wounded World War II veteran; he was hit by D-day mortar fire on Utah Beach. Lawyer Hart has eight photogenic children and an attractive, politically savvy wife. Jane Briggs Hart pilots her own Beechcraft Bonanza, flies her husband around Michigan at campaign time, has money enough as the daughter of the late Walter 0. Briggs (auto bodies, the Detroit Tigers) to afford the airplane and the campaigns...