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...President in U.S. history has had an opposition-party Congress for so much of his tenure (three-fourths), and few have fought so doggedly and effectively against it as Dwight Eisenhower. Last week Ike was fighting - making it plain that he would fight until Congress adjourns in July against any overblown welfare-spending plans that would imperil a balanced budget. To the fight he brought an assortment of ploys and thrusts worthy of the tough and formidable politician that he has gradually become...
...loyalty" and his political insight. In 1933 Roosevelt appointed Allen one of the three commissioners who administer the District of Columbia, and in 1943 he sent him to England on a special Red Cross mission. During the Battle of Britain, Allen became a fast friend of Brigadier General Dwight Eisenhower...
...Allen told Harry Truman that he was going to switch his lifelong political allegiance and vote for his good friend, Republican Dwight Eisenhower. Replied Truman: "Why, that's all right, George. I once voted for a Republican myself. He was a friend who served in my outfit in the Army." But it wasn't all right. Allen was as witty as ever, and as expert at the bridge table with Ike as he was at the poker table with Truman. He made Ike feel at home at Burning Tree golf course, has been host to the Eisenhowers...
...from Rio by wheelchair, and arrived in time. A relay of athletes ran a flaming torch from Salvador, 1.800 road miles away, as 100,000 Brazilians converged last week to hear President Juscelino Kubi-tschek proclaim: "I declare inaugurated under the protection of God the city of Brasilia." President Dwight Eisenhower, like dozens of other heads of state, cabled his congratulations "on the splendid pioneering spirit of Brazil...
...list: Mark Twain ("a prism through which the young country expressed itself"), Herman Melville ("he had scope and virility, didn't internalize"), Tom Paine, Albert Einstein, Edmund Wilson, Theseus, George Bernard Shaw. Allowing that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was "a father figure" to him, Sahl said that he regards Dwight Eisenhower as "a stepfather figure...