Week of January 28-31, 1957

President Eisenhower pays a surprise visit to

Capitol Hill and lunches with Vice-President

Nixon and 39 Republican Senators. Some say

he was there to defend personally Secretary of

State Dulles against an avalanche of

Democratic criticism on the Senate side.

President Eisenhower was said to be miffed

over what he regarded as the failure of most

GOP Senators to spring to Dulles’ defense

when the Secretary and his Middle East policy

came under sharp attack by Sen. Fulbright (D-

Ark) and other liberal Democrats on the senate

Foreign Relations Committee.

President Eisenhower’s request for authority to throw U.S. military forces against

any serious Communist aggression in the Middle East is passed by the House.

The resolution is expected to pass in the Senate. It gives the President

authorization to use both men and money for Red expansion in the vital areas of

oil fields and sea lanes.

King Saud of Saudi Arabia gets a flag-waving reception in Washington as he

rode with President Eisenhower in the open car from the airport to the city.