To the trigger-happy marksmen of the U.S. newspaper columns and editorial pages, a U.S. President is never more vulnerable than when he addresses the nation at large. Last week John F. Kennedy boldly stood twice in the bull's-eye, first when he delivered his State of the Union message and again when he made the biggest budget request in U.S. history (see THE NATION). Both times the President got it from all directions.
The State of the Union message did evoke a scattered volley of praise, but even that was not so much for what Kennedy said but for how he said it....
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