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...Place "observers" in the State and Defense departments and the Budget Bureau. Precedent is Harry Truman's election-night telegram to Ike in 1952: "Congratulations on your overwhelming victory . . . You should have a representative meet with the Director of the Budget immediately." (Ike did.) ¶Be prepared to offer a revised budget soon after inauguration. Candidate Nixon estimated that his program would cost nearly $5 billion more than President Eisenhower's, and Candidate Kennedy's avowed plans would presumably cost considerably more than Nixon's. ¶Appoint Cabinet members-not forgetting the gravely important presidential science...
...matter of time, of when Nixon awakened on the Coast and finally made up his mind. At 11 a.m. Wilson predicted a move within an hour and a half; it came at 12:45 p.m., when Nixon's press secretary, Herbert Klein, made public the Vice-President's telegram of congratulation to Senator Kennedy...
...prime concern among O'Connor supporters in the closing days of the campaign was whether Kennedy would endorse (beyond the standard telegram sent to all candidates) O'Connor when the senator came to Boston last Monday. Kennedy did, but Massachusetts split its ballot...
Again, Nixon sent a telegram to Kennedy, refusing a fifth debate until the Senator had apologized for suggesting that the G.O.P. candidate was afraid to debate him again. When Kennedy was handed this message--it was last Friday in northeastern Pennsylvania--he laughed, as if to say, "What will this two-bit politician do next...
...Terse Telegram. There was one more letter, postmarked July 25. Then only silence followed until three weeks ago when an envelope arrived from Southern Rhodesia containing some old letters and photos Mark had been carrying. Alarmed, the family pressed the State Department to open a search. A check with consulates in Kenya and Uganda, where the boy was overdue, produced no trace. Then a native arrived at the consulate in Elisabethville with grim news: a soldier of the mutinous Congolese army, presumably searching for Belgians, had shot an unknown white man near Kasongo; the body was found...