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...Platform Committee Chairman Prescott Bush and a string of others, including Detroit's Mayor Albert Cobo, who is running for governor of Michigan. Dick Nixon's Republican critic, haggard Harold Stassen, appeared on the sixth floor, conferred for an hour and a half with Presidential Staff Chief Sherman Adams before seeing Ike for ten minutes. The immediate aftermath of Stassen's visit: the first live TV presidential press conference in U.S. history...
...Wilson and his dog act−energetic bird dogs, howling kennel dogs"; "grinning Jim Hagerty and his most fascinating medicine puppet show"; "NoseDive Benson, the flexible man"; "Give-a-Million McKay, the give-away king"; "hapless Harold Stassen, the dying young man on the flying trapeze"; "the little strongman, Sherman Adams, the one Republican who won't run for Vice President. He declines to stop being President...
...beautiful 20-year friendship, in which waspish Gossipist Walter Winchell played Damon to the Pythias of Manhattan Saloonkeeper Sherman Billingsley, had gone pffft, according to Winchell. The rift began, bleated keyhole journalism's grand old man, when ex-Bootlegger-Speakeasier Billingsley, whose flossy Stork Club got much of its floss from Winchell's ceaseless plugs, spatted with Winchell over a pack of cigarettes. The upshot was earthshaking, as Walter wailed last week: "At one time he thought I was a wonderful guy. I haven't been in the Stork in seven or eight weeks...
Later, after a change to a beige tropical suit at his air-conditioned apartment in the U.S. ambassador's residence, Ike left with his brother Milton, Dulles, Adviser Sherman Adams, Dr. Howard Snyder and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty for the Presidencia (the presidential palace). Again, the crowds swarmed along the streets to see him and cheer in the 90° heat. When he arrived at the Presidencia, he paused for the inevitable photos, then went inside, took a heavy, carved-mahogany chair at a long table in the banquet hall. The main and strange order of business: formal exchange...
...week's end the Kentucky Republican State Central Committee got the news that it was hoping to hear. From John Sherman Cooper came a telegram saying that he would give up his job as Ambassador to India after all, and would run for the unexpired (four years) U.S. Senate term of the late Alben Barkley...