National Affairs: IKE GIVES SOME ANSWERS

"The press conference," wrote Columnist Walter Lippmann this week, "has become an institution . . . for overcoming that growing threat to honest journalism, the ghost-written speech and the public-relations facade. . . In its fullest modern development [it] is an ordeal which searches a man's personality far more deeply than it does his principles and his policies." The words were especially true in the case of Ike Eisenhower, and it was Ike's character that won the week with newsmen. But Ike's press conferences also produced answers on policies & principles. Samples:

ΒΆ J Foreign Policy: He would "go any place...

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