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...lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy in his political novels goes out to history's losers, starting with Burr--betrayed, in Vidal's retelling, by the coldly ambitious Thomas Jefferson--all the way up to Adlai Stevenson, who twice played Hamlet to Dwight D. Eisenhower's Henry V. "Yes," Sanford notes in The Golden Age, "he couldn't make up his mind but at least he had one to make...
...lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy in his political novels goes out to history's losers, starting with Burr - betrayed, in Vidal's retelling, by the coldly ambitious Thomas Jefferson - all the way up to Adlai Stevenson, who twice played Hamlet to Dwight D. Eisenhower's Henry V. "Yes," Sanford notes in "The Golden Age," "he couldn't make up his mind but at least he had one to make...
...must say I mistrust the moron ploy. I have been listening to it all my life. Dwight Eisenhower was a moron; Adlai Stevenson was so elegantly articulate, you know, and Eisenhower couldn't even complete a sentence grammatically. And Ronald Reagan, of course, was a complete imbecile. I don't compare W. to Ike or Reagan, who, unlike W., could laugh all the way to the electoral college. But that Manhattan dinner-party smugness - moron jokes as the coup de grace - gives me hives...
...among the half dozen people on earth who believe that Alger Hiss may in fact have been innocent - the victim of a Hooverian/Nixonian plot to fabricate that Woodstock typewriter. It would not surprise me to learn that Summers' next editorial project is an account of the love affair between Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles...
...made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television program, he proved himself the best campaigner yet on the newest communications medium to reach into the U.S. home. His big, square-cut Scandinavian face was etched handsomely on the screen." Editor Henry Luce seemed rather partial to General Dwight Eisenhower, despite Ike's refusal to run; TIME called him "the people's first choice" and lauded his firm stance against the G.O.P.'s isolationist wing. (A few weeks later, TIME reported that many wanted him as the Democratic nominee over Harry Truman...