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...President know that some Republicans seemed resigned to a "bad drubbing" in next month's congressional elections? asked a reporter at the presidential news conference last week. Replied Dwight Eisenhower: "I have heard these reports about apathy and about sitting on hands and complacency." To the President, such an attitude was "incomprehensible" in view of the record built up by his Administration since 1952. Said he: "I think the record of those six years is remarkably good." But what Ike missed was that it is not so much the Administration record as it is his own leadership, his ability...
Most important of all in terms of long-range U.S. domestic welfare, Dwight Eisenhower, among all the politicians in Washington, refused to panic when recession came. Time and again Democratic doom-criers, editorialists and some timorous Republicans demanded that he "do" something. He was in fact doing quite a bit: by fighting effectively against irresponsible tax cuts and wild pump-priming, he was proving that a sound free-enterprise economy could right itself without massive Government interference. He also was holding down the inflation that would have been the inevitable result of a big Government spending spree...
Twenty-four hours after entering Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center for his annual head-to-toe physical examination, a ruddy, smiling Dwight Eisenhower-onetime victim of a heart attack (1955), ileitis (1956) and mild stroke (1957)-came out with the pronouncement from his doctors that he is in "an excellent state of health...
...served as a coast artillery captain in France during World War I, stayed in the Army while studying business administration at Harvard, and wound up as a congressional liaison man in the War Department. There, in the early 1930s, he met and became a favorite companion of Major Dwight Eisenhower, working just down the corridor in the office of Chief of Staff Douglas Mac-Arthur. In 1938 Persons breezed through the Army's Command and General Staff School. During World War II, he moved up to major general, was the Army's top lobbyist on Capitol Hill...
...Candidate Dwight Eisenhower's adviser on government operations, drew up plans for coordinating federal agencies; after Eisenhower was elected, served on a three-man (other members: Milton Eisenhower, Arthur Flemming) committee that streamlined government, established -among other things-a new Department of Health, Education and Welfare. ¶As HEW under secretary (1953-54), drafted legislation to extend Social Security benefits and increase vocational rehabilitation. Also offered other proposals, e.g., federal reinsurance to extend private-hospitalization benefits, aid to education, that were too liberal for the Eisenhower Administration...