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...Stood Together." For the President, perhaps the most pleasurable occasion of the week was in presiding over the ceremony in which honorary U.S. citizenship was conferred on Britain's Sir Winston Churchill. In the White House flower garden, Kennedy paid high tribute to Churchill: "Indifferent himself to danger, he wept over the sorrows of others. A child of the House of Commons, he became its father. Accustomed to the hardships of battle, he had no distaste for pleasure. Now his stately ship of life, having weathered the severest storms of a troubled century, is anchored in tranquil waters...
Even in his sharp criticism of Kennedy, Rockefeller showed a reluctant admiration for the President's political talents. Kennedy, said Rockefeller, tries to sound "a little like Franklin Roosevelt, a little like Winston Churchill-he's a little bit of everybody...
Power Seekers. This apparently was enough for Rab Butler. He called in Welensky and Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Winston Field, a lean, enigmatic farmer who is less interested in the fate of the federation than in seeing to it that Southern Rhodesia's 221,000 whites retain political control of the state's 3,00,000 blacks. Butler announced Britain's decision: no territory would be kept in the federation against its will...
...Congress moved toward bestowing honorary U.S. citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill, someone decided that it was time to repatriate Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Though pardoned under a post-Civil War proclamation by President Andrew Johnson, Lee was, in effect, a second-class citizen, excluded by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (passed in 1868) from holding any public office, civil or military. Now Freshman Representative James H. Quillen, a Tennessee Republican, has introduced a House bill posthumously restoring full rights to the Southern hero in recognition of his "courage and integrity...
...KING'S PERSONS (284 pp.)-Joanne Greenberg-Holt, Rineharf & Winston...