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...years he has gone from struggling craftsman to an artist whose crystal-encased wild flowers are in demand by collectors around the world and represented in museums from the Smithsonian Institution to London's Victoria and Albert. Dwight P. Lanmon, director of the Corning Museum of Glass, which also collects his work, sees in Stankard's flowers a spontaneity and freshness that "capture the quality of living plants...
...first time Dwight Eisenhower met General Bernard Law Montgomery in 1942, the irascible British commander outranked the American newcomer and made no secret of his feelings on the matter. Required to give Eisenhower a briefing, he arrived very late and said, "I'm sorry I'm late, but I really shouldn't have come at all." While Montgomery approached a wall map with his pointer, Eisenhower lit a cigarette. Without turning around, Montgomery stopped his briefing and demanded, "Who's smoking...
...fellow commanders in World War II regarded him mainly as an international "board chairman," Miller, himself a combat correspondent for Yank, sees Eisenhower as a consummate politician and diplomat whose mixture of heartiness, cunning and charm helped hold together a fragile military coalition. "He was most complex," Miller writes. "Dwight Eisenhower could and did outsmart, outthink, outmaneuver, outgovern, and outcommand almost anybody you'd care to name, including Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and yes, even Franklin Roosevelt. I don't know that he ever read Niccolo Machiavelli or La Rochefoucauld, but he practiced what they preached...
Miller writes as though his view represents some kind of radical reassessment. That may have been so for a liberal like Miller, but his judgment is actually coming to be pretty much the conventional wisdom. History has been kind to Dwight Eisenhower, virtually reversing Mark Antony's declaration that the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. All but forgotten now is the Eisenhower who spent much of his presidency playing bridge and golf, who collected handsome presents from rich friends, who presided over an era that is still synonymous with complacency...
Baker has a new thought. "Presidents today cannot be lame ducks," he says. "This is a different era than the last days of Dwight Eisenhower. Events are so swift and interrelated. Reagan amplifies that necessary involvement because he is such an assertive person...