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...Dwight Eisenhower, in a newly released 1956 letter, on the pressure to increase the U.S. defense budget: "Someday there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think what could happen in this country...
...kidnaped by four armed gunmen late last week. In separate incidents, two British citizens had been abducted earlier. Four other Americans seized by militants over the past year have yet to be released. Still in the country are an estimated 1,400 Americans. The U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and the guided- missile cruiser Mississippi were standing by off the Lebanese coast, prepared to carry out a larger evacuation. Observed a Western diplomat in Beirut: "We are moving into dangerous, uncharted areas. The violence is spiraling out of control...
...European theater. By the time he was re-elected to the Senate in 1946, he was an internationalist, convinced that the war had taught "the value of collective security." In the early 1950s, as a leader of the moderate Republican wing, Lodge helped in the drafting of General Dwight Eisenhower for the presidential nomination. But partly because he spent so much time on Ike's campaign, he lost his seat to a newcomer, Congressman John F. Kennedy...
...scheming bureaucratic thug, and the same network's King, also by Abby Mann, suggested that the black civil rights leader was virtually a puppet of white liberals. At minimum, docudramas inevitably distort history by being selective. Ike, which focused on a purported World War II romance between President Dwight Eisenhower and his aide Kay Summersby, exaggerated the importance of individuals with whom Eisenhower worked directly, and sharply undervalued the impact of his offstage superiors, like General George Marshall...
...faced with a Sabbath Inaugural Day, decided to wait until Monday, leaving the nation technically leaderless for a few hours. Woodrow Wilson took the oath of office on a Sunday in 1917 in a private ceremony but staged a formal Inaugural for public consumption the next day. So did Dwight Eisenhower...