w,I,- -~~~co, WED,, 11nv 17 19~7 -- -- -- ¥ , , , a • GOO U EVENING EVERYBODY: Preiident Eieenbower, back at hie desk todaJ _ for an hour or so. The P re1ident, that auch recoTere4. D escribed as •aau■ ed• when he atu■blea ower long word•. aa most of u1 do. fro ■ the lhite Houae ••hear. the President and th• r1rat Lady will probablJ s p end Thank1giTing in the lhite Bou•• - iaatead of at Gettyab At an, rate the Preai4ent•• reoower7 10 tar la ter■•4 •1xcellent• b7 bi• dootora. P reaa Secretary Hagert1 aaya - it'• no• up to the doctors to decide how much wort he can do; when he ought to go back on full achedule. L a st night, he slept for nine hours. This aornin1 he shaved hi ■self _ and bad a breakfast of grapefruit ancl crea■ed beef; went to hie office - and signed official f di CQ aaino lhlte Bouae docuaente; apent a hal hour s • bu1ine1s. Also sending a short period with Vice re1ident Nixon and P residential assi1tant Sherman Ada■•· His brother, Ur. Milton Eisenhower, dropped in at the lhite House to have lunch with hi ■ and during the afternoon the P resident s p ent hia ti ■• chatting with Ira. Eisenhower - a nd p aintina. Toda7'1 aotiYitie ■ indicating that it be doe ■ take it eas7 - h•'• tar troa being out of circulation. ln fa~ t , hi• ph71lolaa, General S117der, 1q1 it 11 not accurate to call tbia - a atrote in any 1en••• ADD BISENHOWBR - Later t h is afternoon Mr. 11aenhower met his 8Q royal guest. The King of Morocco, with our Chief Executive ror about ten minutes. Alao present, Secretary or State Dullea, the King's son, and the President's son, Major John Eisenhower. • anwhile around the world toni g ht they are aaklng •will resident Eisenhower resign?• In Con 6 reea, in London - on the Euro ean continent - even in Russia_ there are re orts that he aurely will step aside in favor of Vice President Hixon. Soae London papers even redicting the Eisenhower resignation at any ti ■ e. All of which seems a little p revioua. Today Secretar7 Ha g erty, a1ked for hia reaction to these re , ; orts, replied:- •Juat 1a7 1 laughed - and did not have any reaction.• Of course, the ru■ors are based on that pledge - the resident gave in Nineteen Fifty Six, after bi ■ heart attack. He then said that he would never clin& to office. if he felt incapable of giving the nation the leadership it must have. · · • does be feel c apab le of So the queat1on is carryin g on? So far t h ere is no indica t ion th a t • PRBSIDENCY FOLLOW EISENHOWER -2 \", 'er the question ~ei;,~ be answered in the negative. If President Eisenhower should resign - it lf\ould tN.-, ~-,·-tl-.J-t , ... ~ t be the first time i n ~ hlstor~~---, It was at said in Nineteen Sixteen - that Woodrow Wilson wow.d leave the White H ouse if he failed in his bid for reelection. With ., World War one raging - Wilson felt it would harm th• country - 1, to have a lame-duck President. la His plan was said to be - to appoint his opponent, Charles Evans Hughes, as Secretary of State - immediately after the election. Then, Wilson and Vice President Marshall - to Nslgn. Which would have made Hughes President. But the Wilson plan never had to be followed up - because he won the election. NIXON --- - At h s new conference tonight, Vi ce President 1xon ans w e red t h e one big question. 'will President Eisenhower res i g n. e ice President's answer - no. Nixon was at the Whi te Hou o ay · and he says no one in the Eisenhower family is even consider i ng the possibility that Mr. Eisenhower might s tep o tin favor o f the Vice President. Nixon, describing Mr. E1s e ower a 'ch ampin g at the bit'. Anxious to get lack to f 11 scale wor • Th e esi e nt, feeling much better -- not at all tu.lnum inclined to et anybody else assume his duties. ixon i d sa t at h is own roll in government - will e l i ttle bigger now but no bigger than the chores he took du ring th e President's previous illness. He'll lift some of t he li g t er burdens from Mr. Eisenhower's back. But the Vice Presi de nt d efinit ely will not make any major decisions. Those, strictl up to the man-in-the-White House - Dwight D. Eisen h ower. The rumors of an Eisenhower resignation - were based on a famous pledge. In Nineteen Fifty Six, Mr. Eisenhower NIXON - 2 spoke to the American people - just after his heart attack. He said then, he would never cling to office - if he felt incapable of giving the nation the leadership u it must have. Well, he still feels able to give that leadership - according to Vice President Nixon. Nothing at all in the rumor of an Eisenhower resignation. I NATO - The nations 71.t elonging to Nato agree A their summit m ee t in h el d , in SJ: te t!".Ci6.. ...4. dee is ionA to be sc e uled for next month in Paris - ml.Bt be of President Eisenhower's illness. The official made tomorrow. But a poll of the fifteen - ~ members shows - the~re unanimous about this. They say the conference is too urgent to be postponed - too important, to include less than the heads of state. The reason - this swmn1t 1111• conference will draw up strategy - to meet the Soviet challen g e in every field. Problems on the agenda - scientific, military and ,1 political. Nato feeling, it will be dangerous not to meet tn Paris - on December Fifteenth. Th ey say they hope V ice President Nixon will~~ t:9 represent America. 'ifte ~ . . . g f th& 'ttee Ptee.ldentt- 111&1;994 M' the ~ t - maee ~ out Ra1tban:v !:11 Part!• ~ 1'ato utl:etts, GO VERNMEN T bec a In a in on , g ov e rnment o ff icial are worried - -Ii s e ~r e ident ~ e v became 111 a t the most crucial .A t i me of the year . November and December,~ months when bi g d e ci ions av to b e made. Decisions affecting the budget . a nd lei lative trateg y for the coming year. Te most impor ta nt problem - federal srending. The residen h as o str i ke a al balance between various programs - ef ore h e arrive at the exact size of h ls budget. T h ings 11 e v eterans comp ensation, housing, and agricul tt re - h ave to b e ironed o • Te results ~},.~C111~ia--tntf7"'\C-'l~ .ff ~ tc Con re ss . So naturally~ officials concerned are anxious.w 1 , e \ , ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ make his .,- decisions in time . STOCK MARKET ih e New York Stock Market rallied today. more th&n ma k in g u p t h at five b ill1on dollar loss of yesterday. The first news of President Eisenhowe~s illness. caused a wave of ·14ct--fu -. J\ 4 -Ll f" \.,"\J_ selling.~ trend reversed with word that the President ls /, f recovering. Orders to sell, cancelled today. The market, going up with every favorable medical bulletin from the White House. ll§§ILE§ DeCen s e Secretary Mcilroy ordere. ■aaa p roduction or to interaediate ■ iaallea. MoElroy telling a ~enate s ub-committee• he has given the green light to both the Ar■7 Jupiter and the Air force Thor. They have a renge of fifteen hundred ■ iles, and carry ato■ lc warheada. The McElroy decision re,eraee an order b7 h11 p redecessor. M0Elro7 ad ■ ita that teatiq 11 aot tlniahel But he think• the Jupiter and the Tbor are both ■o,lq along ao well - that the7 ought to be pu1hed at full speed. One reaaon - •• waat to a1aure our alli•• - that we are not helpl••• Juat beoauae th• iu1aian1 clai ■ to have an intercontinental ■ laalle. le want to •aJ at tb• lato Conference that ••'11 be eending the ■ intermediate aiaailes bJ linettea r1tt 1 light. lot the biggest - not the ICBM_ but, they'll be ota, for our allie• - enable th.. retaliat,• - if Ihruahch•• ahould to imaediatel7 •••r atart a war. SAC - a..Jt~ ~r S trategic Air Command will activate its first / missile squadron, on December Fifteenth. So announced at SAC headquarters in Omaha, The missiles, to carry an atomic warhead - and have a range or five thousand miles. The men of the squadron - now completing a specialized training program. But that doesn't mean - SAC la giving up its planes. -~eavy bombers, to be kept at full atre~th - until••-- developed enough missiles - to replace them. PLAHES T oday t h e US Air Force set a new speed record - ,, for Jet ~M'\ Four " voodoos" flying from California to i New Yor k - in a little over three hours. Th~ pa't}au _ to beat the time atlll of the sun - as well aa the recO~~- A .... Navy a,,..,~,, .,4:;ti F our _,Ai~ left O,t 11•:iw L2tu 22atlwal ■:l.1POi•L, California, this mOmi~ "'-/raced across the continent. , - _ J _ r , ~ ~ - •• Midt==t,~l.•e:~. iwo of them circled around Floyd BeMett Field-" and flew straight back to C&lifornla. The fastest of the lot - Lieutenant Gustav Klatt of ivf-c * : s • Texas/ ~ landed at Plo:,d Bennett.•N■H ~ ; . _ 7 ,three houN-;-- fl ve minutea; and thirty nine aecon tor a distance of two-thousandrfolll'-hundred-and-tort~ix miles. Lieutenant Klatt, decorated with the Distinguished Plying cross - by t h e commander of "tJ tactical Air Poree, GeneNil o. P.. Weyiaad.. GP.neral Weyland, telling newsmen - t h e importance of this flight 1s that we can get planes over . ~ -2 enemy territory and back in a hurry. The planes, to bring pictures with them. Today's four each took pictures of a strip of land eighty miles wide ... across the entire country. One of the planes that turned around - set a round ~ trip record between Los Angeles and Hew York,< six hours and forty two minutes. LLOYD The British Foreign Secretary says - he believes )1..(¼- Amer1can bombers 1 ,carry hydrogen bombs on routine flights from ~ Bri t ish bases. Selwyn Lloyd, stat._ this 1n the House of I\ Commons - during a heated dispute with the Laborltes - led by Aneurln Bevan. Lloyd decla~lng - it 1 a quite proper tor the «. planes to be armed with ff-bombs - since they{re exyected to be ready for action. The Laborltea, challenging the atate11ent - saying the American Air Force la liable to get Brita1fto a war - before the London govemment knows what's happening. FRANCE Th e P remier of France demands a vote of confidence. Premier Gaillard, askin g support by the National Assembly - in h is bi to solve the Algerian problem. Gaillard, ready wit h a "h ome rule" bill for Algeria. The plan, to give the territory a measure of self government - through a system of local assemblies. The plan, to begin after a ceaae-flre -- t h e rebels, to lay down their arms before anything ls done. After that, elections will be held - to revise the government of Algeria over the next three or four years. The same bill caused the downfall of Gaillard'& predecessor in office. But he's expected to survive - because ..aex .-~ At-14 f ,.:.._{:._(j;; ,}- Frenchmen are--,mec'• worried Jlt st France stauer{ng~rom one /\ JC. ~ ~ crisis to another. Gaillard announces - he won't permit UN supervision of t h e Algerian p elections. He doesn't want to internationalize a problem - of France. that he insists 18 8 part of the domestic policy ~~1,~.J 1 Mi 1 t Today, he ~d•••'l'f a report that ld:lt- Fore gn n s er PftAHCE - 2 - ehrtstia" P ineau - h as suggested UN supervision. Gaillard, sending an order to P ineau in New Yor~•- "deny the report at - - - ' ti once. - Tunisia protests to Paris - about the French Navy operating in Tunisian waters. Last Sunday, a French warship halted an Italian freighter bound for Tunis, The freighter, held up for almost an hour - a while she was being searched for anns. She was allowed to go on - after the 1napect1on. Her Captain's papers, all ln order. Tunisia calls this - a violation of her sovereignty. And demands an apology. LIBYA American aid for Libya. Our Ambassador in Tripoli, John Tappin - formally handing over fifteen million dollars' worth of arms - for the defense of that North African nation. Toda 1 s shipment, including everything from rocket launchers ✓ ... ._J to kaU jeeps. Under a pact signed last June, we.also ~ undertaken to equip and train a thousand men for the Libyan Army. LITTLE ROCK The last of the federal troops left Little Rock today. Paratroopers of the Hundred and Pat Airborne Division - flying back to their base at Fort Camp'bell, Kentucky. They"- , . ~~ -f..a~on guard at Central Hlg ~T.llltft&-~ s•ptember T w e n t ~ Four= - when President Eisenhower ordered them in, t o ~ .diOIII mob violence. Now Mr. Eisenhower wt . . . believes integration a, e.,ra-1 Htgt, is going ahead smoothly. So the federal troops leave - turning the job over to the Arkansas National Guard. PALACE Th e Queen of Great Britain - playing hostess to the Princess of Monaco. ueen Elizabet ~ and the Duke of Edinburgh, giving a lunch at Buckingham Palace - for Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. The affair, in the private style - reserved for v1s1t1ng royalty. The Prince and Princess - arriving at the Palace - without aay fanfare - going in through the Royal ef i1.1•11 the Queen's private dining room,a tthe -first floo1 ef the Pai:ne., Gilt edged china, and damask linen, with the meal served by footmen in blue uft• uniforms. Afterward, the ruling family or Monaco left - as unobtrusively as they had come. Today's affair, cona'idered significant in London. Becat1se Rainier an~ace received an invitation to Buckingham ~ } , ~ - Palace - on their first visit to London - althoug~o member of the British Royal family attended the Monaco wedding last y e a r - - . ~ ? r -