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...Quarterback Johnson, backed by his old coach, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, decided to play Dwight Eisenhower's game. Angering the liberals, Johnson refused to hurl their spending bills full-sized against inevitable vetoes, thus make an irresponsible "record" for next year's campaigns. He sought instead to shrink the proposals just enough to get under the veto, but failed in this tactic when Ike refused to compromise on the budget line. Johnson was blamed by labor for swinging key Texas Congressmen to a tough version of the labor reform bill. So by half time, Johnson had picked...
...every capital Dwight Eisenhower touched on his European tour, his appearance had its side effects...
...address an anniversary gathering of 20.000 people, Poland's Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz cried that Adenauer hopes "to drive a wedge between Poland and the Soviet Union." As for Adenauer's claim that Germany's final repudiation of Hitler was demonstrated by German cheers last week for Dwight Eisenhower, "the victorious army leader against Hitler's Germany," that, said Cyrankiewicz, was so much eyewash. The Germans who cheered Ike, he snapped bitterly, no doubt included "many of our old acquaintances . . . experts on gassing and punitive expeditions...
...President of the U.S., Dwight D. Eisenhower-Abilene High School, Abilene, Kans...
...accused in a sensational trial of defrauding the government by accepting $53,000 in bribes from Munitions Makers Murray and Henry Garsson, served nine months and 13 days of his sentence, protested his innocence to the end, although some of the nation's top brass (including General Dwight Eisenhower) testified against him; in Prestonburg...