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...Administration's chief policymaker, or so he reasoned. As Gingrich told Time in the fall of 1995, he saw the potential relationship between himself and Dole as replicating the World War II link between General George Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff who set the war's strategy, and Dwight Eisenhower, who then dutifully implemented it. Dole had a different model in mind and mumbled, "Oh yeah? We'll see," when told of Gingrich's comments. Dole must have had a sense of foreboding: by drama's end, Clinton's astutely negative television campaign would cleverly marry...
...already achieved mythic status. He led his Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, by an impressive 14 points in the opinion polls. The re-election campaign was considered to be a virtual formality. Even Reagan's opponents conceded his "magic" and had all but given up seething about it. "Not since Dwight Eisenhower," wrote TIME in its convention issue, "has the U.S. public felt such fondness for its leader." TIME's Hugh Sidey declared of Reagan, "He is a refrain from Stars and Stripes Forever...
...their strength from the fast-growing Sunbelt states of the South and the West. Their hero was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Richard Nixon did not excite them. Forget for a moment his impeccable credentials as a cold warrior. He had spent eight years as Vice President to the pliant Dwight Eisenhower, a man the Old Right had never entirely forgiven for winning the 1952 G.O.P. nomination away from their longtime hero, Ohio Senator Robert Taft...
...DOLE (R., Kan.) --$1,000 bust of Dwight Eisenhower from the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute and Gettysburg College --$16,000 bronze statue of three soaring birds from the International Center for the Disabled...
Aileen's first husband, Dwight Young, was killed in World War II, leaving her to raise their daughter Yvonne alone. Aileen later acquired three stepchildren when she married again, to Howard Soule, also a diver. She has continued to write, for the New Yorker, Good Housekeeping and, as recently as January, Swim Canada...