National Affairs: From Boston to Abilene

There are vast, almost cosmic, differences between Boston and Abilene, Kans. But they both like Ike.

The President flew to Boston early last week, at the invitation of Archbishop Richard J. Gushing, to address the 27th national convention of the National Council of Catholic Women. In a bipartisan speech on world peace (see above), Ike made a bipartisan political aside. He said, with real feeling, that he joined in the prayers of Boston that Democratic Senator John Kennedy "be shortly restored to full health."† After the speech, the President rode through downtown Boston's Washington Street, was greeted by a storm of confetti...