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A COMPANION FOR LADY GODIVA
Atty. Gen. Kennedy
Lauds FBI for Its Work
Combatting Communism
SEATTLE ‘.T—Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy differed sharply Tuesday
with a speaker who told the West
ern Washington State Democratic
Conference the FBI is exaggerating
the danger of Communist espion
age.
“Communism is a very serious
threat and anyone who under
estimates the danger of that threat
is doing a disservice to the coun
try,’’ Kennedy told a news confer
ence after he arrived here Monday
night.
“Espionage by representatives of
Communist countries has increased
seriously over the past five years."
Kennedy took issue with W. H.
Ferry, vice president of the Fund
for the Republic Inc., who chided
the FBI and its Director, J. Edgar
Hoover.
Ferry, of Santa Barbara, Calif.,
suggested in a speech to the 13
state conference that Hoover’s
warning against Red infiltration,
spying and espionage lack founda
tion. He contended much of the
common conception of Communists
and Communism is a myth.
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GOV. EGAN VISITS NOME
Gov. William A. Egan arrived in
Nome late last evening from Kot
zebue, having been delayed thru
out his trip by weather and air
plane mechanical troubles. He met
informally with friends here and
left for Cordova where he will be
the principal speaker at the Am
erican Legion convention there.
Ernest Dubuque of the U S. Pub
lic Health Service from San Fran
cisco. was in Nome yesterday for
an inspection of intrastate carriers,
checking their water and food ser
vices. He conferred here with State
Sanitarian G. Markham.
A bee has to loot 2,000 flowers
to make a tablespoon of honey.
It there are as many Communist
spies in the country as Hoover
contends, Ferry said, “Perhaps a
new agency should be set up to
deal with them.”
The Attorney General disagreed.
He said the nation owes “a tre
mendous debt of gratitude” to the
FBI for its work in combatting
Communism.
Robert Kennedy, his wife and
four of their seven children were
here on a vacation trip.
A REPORT AT MIDTERM:
President Kennedy's Personality Is
Firmly Stamped On His Administration
Editor’s Note: The notion's
Congress and its executive hove
been waging war on and off
through most of U.S. history.
It’s too early to tell which will i
become dominant during Presi
dent John F. Kennedy’s term in
the White House. But after near
ly two years, notes AP reporter
Reiman Morin in this second
article on Kennedy at mid-term,
one fact is clear: The President’s
personality is firmly stamped on
his administration.
By Reiman Morin
WASHINGTON — Elihu Root,
Secretary of War in two cabinets,
often characterized the enormous
power of the Presidency as “Bat
tle-Axe,” and he went on to say:
“No man should swing a battle
axe as though it were a riding
crop.”
Today, critics of President Ken
nedy identify as one factor causing
! his difficulties w’ith Congress the
allegedly injudicious use of the
“Battle-Axe.” His handling of the
steel price-rise case last spring
when the administration moved
like an awesome juggernaut, is the
example most frequently cited. It
is not the only one, however.
| “A strong feeling has been grow
ing in Congress,” says Rep. John
Lindsay, (R-N.Y.>, “that the Ken
nedy's are trying to shut off de
| bate. They have made basic grabs
for power that are offensive to
: conservatives and liberals alike.”
(Note that he made it plural'.
A Republican senatorial docu
ment tabulated, as of June 1, a
list of 27 requests by Kennedy
which they describe as calls for
“sweeping new powers.”
Sen. Barry Goldwater, (R-Arizd,
says, “He (Kennedy' inherited
j enough powers to make his office
a dictatorship, but one of the
consistent patterns in this admin
istration is the demand for more
power.”
Struggle Is Ancient One
The struggle between the ex
i ecutive and legislative branches of
i government is an ancient one.
And one theory' among students
’ of the amazing American system
holds that the nation moved only
j when the President is strong
enough to dominate Congress. It
is too early to tell whether Ken
nedy will emerge as a “strong
President.” At the moment, he is
not dominating Congress. Sen.
Jacob Tavits, (R-N.Y.), says he is
in a “state of disarray.”
In the White House, however, \
Kennedy is his own chief of staff, j
; There is no “assistant President” ;
who filters the enormous mass of
business.
He delegates authority widely.
But ho ki'ops a strong hand on
much of the major business and
tends to follow through himself.
Kennedy’s day begins around
7:30, with breakfast and a stack
of newspapers in bed. He soaks up
an incredible amount of news,
editorial comment and columns be
fore coming to his office. Some
times, he goes beyond merely read
ing a story. Mention a given news
report and he is apt to say, “Yes,
I read that and I know where he
(the writer! got it.”
His office day seldom ends be
fore early evening.
Tough - Minded
To a considerable degree, Ken
nedy’s own personality stamps his
administration. He is tough-mind
ed, quick, incisive, highly articu
late, a machinegun talker who uses
$5 words. For example, today’s
problems are not “complicated”;
they are “sophisticated.”
You find the same characteris
tics in some of those around Ken
nedy — especially his brother,
A tty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, Sec
retary of Defense Robert McNa
mara, Secretary of Labor Arthur
Goldberg, special counsel Theodore
Sorensen, and Salinger.
Some others, Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, Secretary of Agricul
ture Orville Freeman, and Abra
ham Ribicoff, who recently re
signed from the cabinet, may speak
more deliberately. But they have
the same dry, astringent manner
in discussing an issue.
Another hallmark is that this is
a “shirtsleeves administration.”
Few wear coats in the office.
In the White House today are
some of the professionals who
played major parts in fashioning
the campaign that elected Ken
nedy — Lawrence O’Brien, Ken
neth O’Donnell and Meyer “Mike”
Feldman.
They have discovered that coax
ing votes out of the Congress is,
if anything, tougher than persaud
ing the ordinary voter.
Senate minority leader Everett
Dirksen, of Illinois, commenting
on Congress’ legislative record,
says, “Maybe some of the blame
belongs there in Congress. But we
think most of the blame belongs
on the Kennedy administration.
The cause for the failure of the
Kennedy legislative program is
a simple one — it is not popular
with the American people and it
is not popular with Congress.”
In that connection, a question
arises — Is there a great demand,
a compelling call, throughout the
United States for some of the leg
islation the President has request
ed?
The proposed Department of
Urban Affairs, for example, GOP
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President's Wife and
Daughter Arrive In Italy
I By Commercial Airliner
j RAVELLO, Italy (/?>—Jacqueline
i Kennedy and Caroline arrived In
dav, via a mountainous coastal
highway with sheer drops of 1,000
feet to the sea, for an Italian holi
day in this little tourist town
perched on a clifftop.
They were guarded by police for
the 25-mile drive over the curving
road from the Salerno airport.
The U. S. President’s wife and
her 4-year-old daughter, who is on
her first trip abroad, arc staying
at an 11th Century villa as guests
of Prince Stanislaus and Princess
Lee Radziwill, Mrs. Kennedy’s
brother-in-law and sister.
The heat was in the sweltering
90’s on the highway, which runs
along the mountainous Sorrenton
Peninsula. The peninsula is fam
ous for wine, olives, breathtaking
scenery and nervewraeking roads.
Mrs. Kennedy and a sleepy Caro
line arrived in Rome three hours
earlier by commercial airliner
from New York. They then flew to
the airport near Salerno in a small
chartered Swdss plane.
Mrs. Kennedy was met at the
airport by her sister. They made
the hour-long drive to Ravello in
the Radziwill’s big American car.
Police had spent hours this mor
ning checking for mines or plastic
bombs along the last, hazardous
three miles of the road up to Ra
vello.
Mrs. Kennedy and Caroline made
the trip from New York aboard a
regular commercial airliner in a
special bedroom. Caroline yawned
and smiled sleepily at reporters
on alighting at Rome.
RONALD SENUNGETUK AND
NORWEGIAN GIRL ARE TO BE
MARRIED HERE SATURDAY
Ronald Senungetuk, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Willie Senungetuk, who
has been teaching at the Univer
sity of Alaska this past year, ar
rived this morning from Fairbanks
with his bride-to-be. Miss Turid
Grotthing, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Christian Grotthing of Oslo,
Norway.
The couple plan to be married
Saturday in the Community Meth
odist Church. They met while Mr.
Senungetuk was studying in Eu
rope under a Fullbright scholar
ship.
Rep. Lindsay says he voted “Yes"
on this, “because there is chaos
in the conditions of many cities."
But he concedes that it is too com
plicated (or sophisticated) an issue
for the man on the street to have
strong feelings about.
Similarly with federal aid to
education. Ribicoff, before the he
resigned as Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare, said Amer
icans like to think that they be
lieve whole-heartedly in schools
and the whole educational process.
“We don’t have the commitment to
education, though, that we like to
think," he said.
So it may be that the country as
a whole isn’t ready for, and doesn’t
want, some of the things the Pres
ident wants.
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