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...troops in the absence of a declaration of war has been a resort of Presidents almost since the Republic began. But the device has become increasingly popular since World War II. Harry Truman made use of it to send U.S. forces into Korea in 1950; Dwight Eisenhower dispatched the Marines into Lebanon under it in 1958; Lyndon Johnson employed it to invade the Dominican Republic-and to expand the U.S. presence in Viet...
OVER the past 47 years, the flag of the U.S. has appeared 63 times on the cover of TIME. It embellished a portrait of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1942; it provided a backdrop for General Mark Clark in 1946; it rested in the hands of Astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped on the moon in July 1969. Only once before, however, has Old Glory pre-empted the entire cover. That was the issue of July 6, 1942, and it accompanied a story that analyzed the new significance of the freedom that the flag symbolized at a time when...
Nixon knows only too well the uses of the vice presidency, and he lets Agnew do for him what he himself did for Dwight Eisenhower. "My political function," Agnew says, "is to forage out in advance of existing policies and generally to project the philosophy of the Administration." The personal equation helps. "We have a similar background," Agnew observes. "I can easily identify. I have not yet misconstrued the President's intentions. Of course, this is a high-risk activity, though I haven't yet fallen off the bridge...
WILSON COLLEGE Walter Cronkite, L.H.D., TV journalist. Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower, L.H.D., widow of President Dwight David Eisenhower...
...this book, Proxmire brings together all his criticisms of the Pentagon and its suppliers. He takes his text from Dwight Eisenhower's valedictory warning against "unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex...