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...interested in what anyone thinks about my victory or defeat, but only in the welfare of this university." Indeed, the rancor generated by last spring's student rebellion and some 800 arrests has tended to obscure Kirk's lasting contributions to Columbia. After taking over from Dwight Eisenhower, he created six institutes in which scholars from many fields studied selected regions of the world, built up a science faculty that won four Nobel Prizes, set top scholars to work on studies of vital contemporary problems ranging from birth control to computer science to urban planning. A more effective...
Error Margin. To justify the apparent turnabout, Gallup suggested that the timing of the poll taking was crucial. Gallup's sampling was made between July 19 and 21, just after Dwight Eisenhower endorsed Nixon. Ike's announcement may have swung some sentiment to his former Vice President...
...trouble filling the time too. For both sessions on Monday and the one Tuesday night, they had to find a glittering cast of speakers who would bring honor to the Republican party without touching at all on the question of who should be nominated. To be sure, Barry Goldwater, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Mayor John V. Lindsay in their own ways indirectly supported their choices for the top spot on the ticket through what they said, but for the most part those first two days were uncontroversial, and insufferably boring. The television networks do well to cut into...
...vote with that one, but it will take something bigger to deny him, or Humphrey for that matter, the nomination. Humphrey has the implied blessing of Lyndon Johnson, which hurts in the ideological competition but helps in controlling the convention apparatus. To nobody's surprise, Nixon last week received Dwight Eisenhower's formal endorsement, which does not mean much in terms of convention procedures but serves to remind regulars where the party's center lies...
...this century alone, six Justices have been appointed in presidential election years, the last, William Brennan, being named by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower little more than a month before the 1956 election, when the nation also had a chance to change its leadership. Chief Justice John Marshall was appointed by his friend John Adams only a few weeks before Thomas Jefferson was to take office. If the G.O.P. argument were followed through, noted Mansfield, "any time a President was elected to a second term, he would become a lame duck on the very first day of that term." Johnson himself...