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Hughes stayed with the Eisenhower team through late 1954, returned to Time, Inc., for the years 1954-5, and only rejoined the team briefly for the second campaign. Thus he was not an active participant during the years of the real ordeals--1954, which "began with Dulles' proclamation of the...
Part of the reason for the massive failure, of course, lies in the kind of men Eisenhower chose for his agents. Not until Hughes' book have the pettiness and vulgarity which distinguished the Eisenhower team--present company excepted--been so unambiguously depicted and decried. Cabinet meetings (which Hughes describes from...
Hughes suggests two reasons why Eisenhower allowed himself to be contained behind the wall of Dulles' diplomacy. First, he describes Eisenhower as practically Hamlet-like in his reluctance to carry out his resolves. He was unwilling to indulge in political maneuver for fear the experience of "the gutter" would kill...
Much as Dulles and Nixon and Charlie Wilson bored and irritated Eisenhower, Hughes says he was provoked to real anger and disgust only by the clowns and rogues who populated Congress: Knowland, Bricker, Dirksen, Milliken, McCarthy. On the subject of Mr. Bricker and his Amendment, Eisenhower waxed especially splenetic: at...
When Friends Fell Out. Pearson's most anxious diplomatic hours came in November 1956, after Israel, Britain and France invaded Nasser's Egypt. The crisis split Canada, which had always loyally supported Britain in time of war, but now found itself ranged alongside the U.S. and most of...