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Next morning Stassen and other top Republicans gathered at Washington's National Airport to welcome the President back from Panama. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and White House Aide Jerry Persons walked out of their way to avoid him. Massachusetts' Senator Lev Saltonstall bumped into Stassen, reacted as though he had come nose to nose with a spoiled cod. Thirty feet away, Dick Nixon seemed oblivious to Stassen's presence. Only at the very end of the airport interlude did Stassen walk over to Nixon and say, "Good morning." The two shook hands briefly, while news photographers clicked...
...President's 1956 political role is a group of top-drawer Republicans who meet informally and are known in party circles as "the Committee." More or less regular members are White House Chief Sherman Adams, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Press Secretary James Hagerty, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff and New York Lawyer Tom Stephens, who has been roaming the country for months as a G.O.P. organizer, trouble-shooter and factfinder. All of them have been planning with the President's health in mind, but they have been happy to encounter a real impetus...
...attitude of TIME, Feb. 20, toward Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield's report to the President and Congress for a more realistic approach to postal costs is commendable. Postal operations require constant and daily supervision to improve the service and give people the service they desire. I know-I have been at it for over 32 years, but you can't expect $5 service...
...Summerfield's specific proposals for new rates-first-class mail to 4? an ounce, air mail to 7?, and a 30% increase in second-and third-class mail- were open to argument on detail. But there could be no doubt that some increase was necessary in all three classes of mail. Congress-which last year denied a similar Summerfield request-was faced with a clear choice: higher postal rates or indefinite continuance of the built-in Post Office deficit...
...hour afternoon rest. Pushing its control button i, he received some visitors in "my electric chair," a fancy convalescent device that raised and lowered his back and legs or gently oscillated. After 15-minute morning huddles with Sherman Adams, he received official callers, among them Postmaster General Summerfield and Labor Secretary Mitchell. Summerfield later told reporters that he had talked to the President about legislation to raise first-class mail rates to 4?, airmail...