Word: cincinnatian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnatian McElroy contributed to the preconvention campaign of Cincinnatian Robert A. Taft, but supported Ike in the general election. As a Harvard overseer and an adviser to the University of Cincinnati, McElroy had long been a lay educational leader, and in 1954 President Eisenhower tapped him for a big educational assignment: chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Before taking the job McElroy first pondered whether it would "be good for P. & G." Then he bluntly asked Ike: "Are you genuinely interested in this problem, or are you doing this for window dressing?" Ike liked the frankness, assured McElroy...