Word: dwight
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...political policy rather than its instrument. Historically, the U.S. military as an institution has kept out of politics to a remarkable degree. One reason perhaps is that until the late '40s Americans never tolerated a peacetime military force large enough to be influential. That has changed radically. What Dwight Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex* constitutes an enormous power bloc that now embraces manufacturers, organized labor, local business interests, many scientists and nonprofit organizations that get defense contracts (see box opposite). Yet it is difficult to show a precise cause-and-effect relationship between the defense complex and the generation...
...familiar-the flag-draped gun carriage inching down Constitution Avenue, the throngs filing past a casket in the Capitol Rotunda, the millions pausing before their television sets to watch a hero laid to rest. To a nation that has lately witnessed all too many such occasions, the funeral of Dwight Eisenhower had a significant difference. It was not an occasion for grief over a life tragically foreshortened by an assassin's bullet but an opportunity to pay homage to one who had served his country and had died in peace, his work completed...
Born Oct. 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, where his father, David Eisenhower, was a railroad-yard mechanic, Dwight was brought to Abilene at the age of two. The family was never well off?David Eisenhower rarely earned more than $100 a month?and the six boys worked hard to help out. Dwight sold vegetables grown on his family's three acres and stoked furnaces at the Belle Springs Creamery, where, at 19, he became night foreman...
They soon experienced a tragedy that was to stay with them always. Four years later, at Camp Meade in Maryland, their first son, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), 3, died of scarlet fever. "This was the greatest disappointment and disaster in my life," Eisenhower wrote in 1967, "the one I have never been able to forget completely. Today when I think of it, even now as I write of it, the keenness of our loss comes back to me as fresh and as terrible as it was in that long dark day soon after Christmas, 1920." At Abilene, the bodies of father...
...final judgment on any President lies with history-and historians. Few scholars would care today to deliver a definitive verdict on Dwight Eisenhower, but many have formed tentative opinions. Asked by TIME to assess Ike as President, general and citizen, some leading historians had some well-defined-and remarkably consonant-views...