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Leverett vs. Timothy Dwight...
Journalists have always taken particular satisfaction in speculating about Nixon-and most of the current Nixon talk is journalistic speculation. But it got some extra impetus through an offhand remark by the senior Republican who, according to those same journalists, for so long wanted to "dump Nixon." Dwight Eisenhower, in a televised interview, spoke of Nixon's chances in the event of a G.O.P. convention stalemate: "Now, if there should be one of those deadlocks, I would think he would be one of the likely persons to be examined and approached, because he is, after all, a very knowledgeable...
...guest list read like an East Coast Republicans' Who's Who. Among those attending: former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, political strategist for Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; CBS Board Chairman William Paley; Du Font's Pierre S. du Pont III; General Electric's Ralph Cordiner; former Defense Secretary Tom Gates, an Ike intimate; New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer; Philadelphia Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, and party officials from Delaware and New Jersey. Invited but sending regrets were George M. Humphrey, Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary, and former G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn...
...goodies, stole into the rubble, removed what hidden jewels they could find, and carried them home. One man put $200,000 worth into a satchel and took it to his wife. Another gathered $15,000 worth, sped to his farm in Gettysburg, Pa., just a mile or so from Dwight Eisenhower's place, and buried it there...
...faster than most history makers manage it, the 34th President of the U.S. has produced his documented recollections of the men and events that are still well-remembered headlines to all but junior readers. Dwight Eisenhower's account of his first term in office (1953-56) is fat, flat and informal. Eisenhower is no Churchill. There is neither the thunder of oratory nor the sweep of history here. Instead, there is the sense of an earnest man trying to do his best. Admirers will find in its unadorned prose the reassuring image of the President who tried...