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...argument from none other than President Dwight Eisenhower. Arising to toast Nixon at a White House dinner, Ike said: "The Vice President will be the head of the Republican Party for the next four years, and he will have my support and the support of all those who are present tonight." Unfazed, Rockefeller the following day paid a scheduled call upon the President, shrugged off Ike's tribute to Nixon ("I would not want to debate with the President on that subject"), and issued a call for "collective leadership" of the G.O.P. Then he had a 90-minute breakfast...
...Council, Perez raised the battle cry against the four Negro girls in the city's first integrated schools: "Are you going to wait until Congolese rape your daughters! Are you going to let these burr-heads into your schools! Do something about it now!" For much of its present trouble, Louisiana can thank Leander Perez...
...their families, a few notes gave an inkling, especially as the Christmas season approached, of their solitary anguish. "I can't believe that nothing is happening," wrote Bruce Olmstead, "and I do my best to make it from one day to the next, hoping that some decision will present itself." Said John McKone: "This is an ordeal. I don't think that either one of us will ever be the same ... I have no idea what the future holds for us at this time...
According to Leach, one of the most constructive features of the plan is that part allowing free transferance of personnel among the services. At the present, technicians must work out the "best ICBM" or the "best war-head" for their own branch in order to keep their jobs. This leads to wasteful competition...
Describing the unification move as "vital," Leach nevertheless criticized the proposed elimination of the service secretaries for two reasons. In the first place, he pointed out, it would be wise to maintain the present system as long as the separate branches remain intact...