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...chance of a potshot at De Gaulle was not the only worry of Greek leaders. The government was also uneasy that De Gaulle might try to embroil Greece in his quarrel with Britain over the Common Market, and with the U.S. over NATO defense. It was France, not Greece, which had pushed the trip. De Gaulle had picked up an invitation made seven years before to then President René Coty. Paris also suggested that the French fleet drop anchor in the Piraeus to coincide with De Gaulle's arrival, and discreetly broached the plan of having De Gaulle...
Recalling, perhaps the dispatch with which President Kennedy recently disposed of the small band of willful steel executives, ex-President Eisenhower took a potshot last Wednesday at what seems to be his own nemesis. Circling his beloved boondocks in support of ailing Republicans, Ike lambasted that "small band of unauthorized professors from a particular college" who through Kennedy Administration programs, are trying "to tell me and to tell everyone how to live." Eisenhower went on to mention that he isn't about to trust his own future or that of his grandson to any "little clique of self-appointed professors...
That would leave only Jack Kennedy between Powell and the White House -and Powell says he has already figured out how to handle Kennedy. Beginning next January, Powell plans to take "a potshot a week" at the President. And if he wins the Republican nomination, Powell will really set out after Kennedy: "I'll just build up every brick, brick by brick, in that wall around Berlin. I'll ask every day. 'Why didn't you put those planes over the Bay of Pigs...
Lincoln Day is the annual occasion for Republican orators to take to the field, potshot at the opposition, and praise the Grand Old Party. Last week there was plenty of potshotting and praising. In Niagara Falls, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller charged the Democratic Administration and Congress with a civil-rights record that "must constitute one of the most cynical exploitations of minority aspirations that has ever occurred in the history of American politics." Gibed G.O.P. National Committee Chairman William Miller in Battle Creek, Mich.: "To get a real top job in the New Frontier, you first must...
...presidency, and in 1956 earned Rhee's abid ing hatred by getting himself elected Vice President on the Democratic ticket. Rhee isolated him by excluding him from all participation in govern ment, did not even speak to him except on ceremonial occasions. Then an assassin took a potshot at him, hit ting him in the hand; Chang was so shaken that he retired to his home, surrounded himself with hand-picked bodyguards, and rarely ventured forth. And though he courageously continued to denounce the corruption and brutality of the Rhee regime, many mem bers of Chang...