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...Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. asked for the same civil-rights program that was pigeonholed in the Senate Judiciary Committee last summer. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton forecast no change in the Administration's plan for developing natural resources through public-private "partnership" cooperation. One surprise: Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield laid out a request for all-inclusive 5? first-class mail to be carried by air on long hauls, by train for short drops...
Gauging the accomplishments and desires of President Eisenhower's Cabinet members, Washington soothsayers predicted that two would leave the Cabinet before Ike's second term began. The two rated most likely to secede: Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, who seven weeks ago underwent surgery on his esophagus; and Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, who has frequently made plain his hope of retiring as soon as practicable...
Last week the President himself spoke for Summerfield: because of an 1872 act that ends the Postmaster General's appointment after one presidential term and one month more, Ike named the onetime Republican national chairman to the job all over again. "Engine Charlie" Wilson spoke for himself. Returning to his desk after a holiday visit to Michigan, he told newsmen he expected to remain in the Cabinet until the defense budget has been approved by Congress next spring or summer. But he added: "I might change my mind, of course. A man never knows what is going to happen...
Collaborating with Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, long a power in the Michigan Republican hierarchy, Feikens has managed to repair most of the damage caused by the bitter Taft-Eisenhower fight in 1952, which alienated some of the G.O.P.'s best-heeled backers. Today Feikens is constantly prodding businessmen to get into the campaign more deeply. "Corporate lawyers won't let companies stick their necks out," he complains bitterly. "Most opinion leaders in Michigan communities are Republicans, and when they say that the C.I.O. still controls the state, somebody's falling down on the job pretty badly...
Those in the dominant group in the party today have very little in common with the caricature of the past. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, Attorney General Brownell, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, Postmaster General Summerfield. Thomas E. Dewey-these men have about as much resemblance to the Old Guard as an old-time minstrel show has to a slick Rodgers and Hammerstein musical...