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First out of the box at the presidential press conference last week was one of the bluntest political questions Dwight Eisenhower had ever faced: How does he feel about the complaints by two G.O.P. right-wingers, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and Pennsylvania's Congressman Richard Simpson, that the President's party leadership is weak? All week long the White House staff had been steaming about the Old Guard mutterings against the President at the G.O.P. National Committee meeting in Des Moines (TIME...
Donovan was merely reporting what those closest to the Administration have long realized: that Dwight Eisenhower and Earl Warren do not see eye to eye on the directions taken by the Supreme Court under Warren. Several months ago, for example, the President, referring at a dinner party to the series of court decisions overturning federal convictions in security cases, shook his head, saying: "I don't understand what the court is doing in some of these decisions." For his part Earl Warren could only resent the President's steadfast refusal to express his approval of the court...
...hand to blare out Old Soldiers Never Die as 96 former command and staff comrades offered their twelfth annual salute to the stern, bayonet-spined Old Man, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, turned 79. Among the many who wired birthday greetings: "Your old friend and assistant, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Said he, aiming at the Republican line on the budget: "There are two ways to remain fiscally solvent. One is to pull in, shrink back, scrimp and do nothing except sit in a rockin' chair. The other is to stand, produce, work longer and harder." Said he of Dwight Eisenhower: "We are meeting tonight in the lingering twilight of the Great Crusade. And now there's nothing left but a desire for quiet -and government by the threat of veto...
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, his upper lip never stiffer than in the glare of BBC-TV lights, mourned the backfire of some backstab aimed in his memoirs (TIME, Nov. 24) at Dwight Eisenhower: "I sent him a copy of my book. The result was silence. I sent him a Christmas card with a very warm greeting, much warmer than to anyone else. Again there was only silence. I am awfully sad if I have lost the friendship of that great and good...