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House Majority Leader James Wright studied the three Presidents with a bit of Texas melancholia. Twenty years earlier he had gone to a small Baptist church in Bonham to say a farewell to a great American, Sam Rayburn. On that day, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson had shared a cramped pew. Wright had never forgotten the moment, and thought he would never see anything like it again. But here before him was a similar scene. Nixon came to Wright's seat and shook his hand. Then he reached back into that crammed cerebrum and recalled...
This year's casualty totals threaten to rise no higher than the peaks of the ten-year period between 1957 and 1967, which began with a mild recession under Dwight Eisenhower, encompassed John F. Kennedy's famous expansionary tax cut in 1964, and ended just as the Lyndon Johnson boom years of Viet Nam were beginning to fire up domestic inflation. In 1957, 13,739 firms went bust. In 1967, near the zenith of the go-go years, 12,364 companies went under. The highest number of failures registered during the entire period, 17,075, came...
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a more effective leader than most contemporary observers believed, Ernest R. May, professor of History, said this week, concurring with participants at a recent, highly publicized conference on the late president...
Kennedy had tastes that were quiet, but proportionate to his estimated $10 million fortune and the $400 million family holdings that backed it up. He liked exclusive beach houses, boats and planes. Nixon had homes in San Clemente and Key Biscayne, improvements on which cost the taxpayers huge sums. Dwight Eisenhower had his magnificent Gettysburg farm fixed up and stocked by admirers...
DIED. Robert Montgomery, 77, urbane film star of the 1930s and '40s (Night Must Fall, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, They Were Expendable), who went on to become a stage and screen director, a pioneering television producer and, during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the first White House TV adviser; of cancer; in New York City. Flippant comedy roles on Broadway propelled him to Hollywood, where he became president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1935. In 1950 he launched Robert Montgomery Presents, one of TV's first major dramatic series, and kept it going for seven seasons...