Word: donovan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This remarkable episode in the history of Ike's party problems is part of a remarkable book* by the New York Herald Tribune's veteran White House Correspondent Robert Donovan, which became public this week. Tapped by the Administration to write its first history, Newsman Donovan had free access (see PRESS) to superprivate (but nonclassified) papers. Donovan's product, although it deals principally with the unsensational, everyday affairs of state, type-sets both the headlines and the footnotes of the Eisenhower Administration, and is certain to start political horns honking across...
...Snyder," writes Donovan, "listened to Eisenhower's chest with a stethoscope and took his pulse and tested his blood pressure . . . It took only two or three minutes for Snyder to come to the grave conclusion that the President of the U.S. was suffering from a coronary thrombosis." Snyder immediately began specific treatment for a coronary...
...disgusted did the President become with the Republican majority in Congress in 1953, says Donovan, that he gave serious thought to forming a third party, consulted intimate friends about it, and even tried to think of a name (he never decided on one, but from his attempts he derived such phrases as "progressive moderates" and "dynamic conservatism"). Finally, Ike, newcomer to politics, realized the two-party system was best for the U.S., and unceasingly turned his energies toward remodeling the Republican Party...
...Cabinet meeting, when the furor over Republican Senator John Bricker's proposed amendment (to limit the President's treatymaking power) was at its raucous height. Civil Service Commissioner Philip Young facetiously suggested that perhaps a few A-bombs "could be used now to good effect." Says Donovan: "The President took him to task for this. He said sharply that he did not wish to hear any talk of a 'Pride's Purge.' "* Through patience and persuasion (along with, on at least one occasion, a threat to take his case to the U.S. public), President Eisenhower...
...doctor, says Author Donovan, did not tell Ike of his diagnosis, but "the President knew he was very ill . . . To avert shock to Mrs. Eisenhower, who has long suffered from valvular heart disease herself, Snyder sent her back to bed without telling her the President's true condition. Also, he put aside the idea of a public announcement because he feared that it would cause great excitement which inevitably would permeate the Doud house and might possibly kill the President. Sitting alone in the dead of night with his slumbering patient, therefore, Howard Snyder was the only...