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...desperately offered to create a special role for him as overseer of military matters, his "deputy Commander in Chief." MacArthur said he would consider that. Taft was still negotiating with MacArthur as Taft's aides worked to bring about a second ballot in the Chicago convention of 1952. But Dwight Eisenhower, another hero, won on the first ballot. If Eisenhower had not entered the race that year, MacArthur might have been our President, since Taft died in the middle of the next term's first year...
Midway into his second term -- if he is re-elected -- Bush will have charged by other golden oldies, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, both 69, and Dwight Eisenhower, 70. That would leave Bush second only to Ronald Reagan, who retired to California at age 77. Bush's thyroid problem, his doctor's public concerns about job stress and his televised throwing up into the lap of Japan's Prime Minister have underscored persistent questions about the President's health. There was even the wild media speculation earlier this year that Bush would cite health reasons to make a dramatic exit...
...Harris, a now forgotten star, strikes a provocative balance of plaintive charm and rhythmic sophistication in a 1930 recording of You Do Something to Me. For Miss Otis Regrets, Ethel Waters' well-known version is bypassed in favor of one by blues singer Alberta Hunter because, as album editor Dwight Blocker Bowers notes, she gives this uniquely bitter nonsense song "Porter's sassy spirit." So does this whole definitive...
Unlike Bush, Clinton or anyone else who has seriously run for the White House since Dwight Eisenhower, Perot is defined almost entirely by his person rather than by specific issue positions. Asked his views in an April TV interview on the upcoming environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, Perot gave an answer, both refreshingly candid and alarmingly ill-informed: "I don't know a thing in the world about it." In an appearance on Meet the Press, Perot appeared befuddled as he tried to defend his misguided assertion that $180 billion could be saved by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse...
This pattern cut across the traditional lines of party and even ideology. On several occasions, Republicans carped at Democrats from the left and portrayed themselves as peacemakers. In October 1952, just before that year's election, Dwight Eisenhower vowed, with great fanfare, "I shall go to Korea." It was a gesture of political theater, not statesmanship...