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...major debate over the adequacy of the Eisenhower Administration defense programs to cope with the dangers of the coming "missile gap" (TIME, Feb. 8). Nixon defends the Administration program with no sign of misgivings. Among the Democratic hopefuls, Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson and Missouri's Stuart Symington have hammered hardest at the missile gap, but Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been frankest in facing the prospect that more defense might cost more money. The nation must increase the "portion of our national resources" devoted to missile programs, he says. Symington, Harry Truman's onetime...
...agrees that federal farm programs have become intolerably expensive (cost in fiscal 1959: $7 billion). But none of the presidential hopefuls have as yet come out with a convincing agenda for cleaning up the mess. Humphrey has unveiled a four-point "charter of hope for agriculture," and Kennedy and Symington have outdone him with rival six-point programs, but all three programs are short on specifics. Johnson says that "American ingenuity should be equal to the task" of channeling surplus food to "those who need it," but his own ingenuity has produced only a slogan ("food bin of freedom"). Administration...
...Gallup poll undertook to find out what, if anything, people thought the Federal Government should be spending more money on. Topping the list: education. The Gallup finding indicates that federal aid to education will be one of 1960's most important domestic issues. Johnson, Humphrey, Kennedy and Symington all favor more of it. Vice President Nixon's efforts to take hold of the education issue ("Inadequate classrooms, underpaid teachers and flabby standards are weaknesses we must constantly strive to eliminate") are hindered by the fact that President Eisenhower has drawn back from his first-term support for federal...
...nomination. If Johnson is not the Democratic nominee (and the odds as of now are against him), the civil rights issue may be pretty well neutralized. Nixon has spoken out forthrightly for civil rights progress, says that the goal is "equality of opportunity for all Americans." Humphrey, Kennedy and Symington all have unspotted voting records on civil rights. All three Senators (and Johnson too) back the Democratic plan for federal registrars to protect Negro voting rights in federal elections. But the Administration has seized the initiative with Attorney General William Rogers' plan for court-appointed referees to safeguard Negro...
...advance team for Jack Kennedy was offered the second-best suite for their man, but the offer was declined. Jack preferred to be on the ground floor. The relieved room clerk assigned him to Room 103 and moved Missouri Representative Charlie Brown, the lonesome representative of absent Stuart Symington, into the second-best suite. A good time...