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Shortly after Roosevelt's death. Miss Perkins' resignation was accepted by President Truman, but she remained in Government for another seven years as a civil-service commissioner. The day Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated she resigned for good, the "last leaf," she said cheerfully, on the New Deal tree. Last week, her accomplishments part of the fabric of American social reform. Frances Perkins died in Manhattan at 83, following a stroke...
Besides Ford and Sizer, the committee's members include Dwight Le M. Bolinger, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics; Douglas Porter, assistant professor of Education and the University's director of Programmed Instruction; David E. Purpel, assistant professor of Education and acting director of the Master of Arts in Teaching program; and William G. Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...
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...more sensitive to criticism than President Johnson, and his mood was not notably improved by a demand from Charles de Gaulle that he pull the marines out of the Dominican Republic. Time and again during the week, Johnson pulled from his pocket a recent letter from Dwight Eisenhower, who wrote: "If there is any who opposes the President in his conduct of our foreign affairs, he should send his views on a confidential basis to the Administration; none of us should try to divide the support that citizens owe to their head of state in critical international situations." The absurdity...
Sometimes he also calls in Under Secretary of State George Ball, or General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, or the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. And he relies on Dwight Eisenhower for occasional military counsel, has recently been telephoning him once a week. Ike approves of Lyndon's course in Viet Nam, has told him: "There will come a time when everything will be just right-there will be an opening, and you can sit down and negotiate. It happened in Korea. I was lucky. But you must hang on until that time comes...