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...there. Justices have often confounded the Presidents who appointed them with unpredictable decisions. After Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled against Teddy Roosevelt in a key antitrust case, the President, who had appointed Holmes, fumed: "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that." Said Dwight Eisenhower about his selection of Earl Warren: "The worst damn fool mistake I ever made." Harry Blackmun stunned Richard Nixon by writing the court's majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade (1973), the decision that legalized abortion...
...Soviets seem far less hopeful than they were at the outset of this Administration that Reagan will end up, like earlier postwar conservative Republican Presidents, presiding over better Soviet-American relations than liberal Democrats. Says Svyatoslav Kozlov, a retired general who now writes on military affairs: "Our experience with Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon suggests that there may still be hope for avoiding a complete breakdown, but the paradox of our better relations with Republican Presidents is by no means predestined to be repeated with Reagan...
Harry Truman buzzed the White House in a DC-4 called the Sacred Cow, which by 1945 had become a symbol of presidential power. Dwight Eisenhower, the only President to hold a pilot's license, moved us into the missile age and got a jet, a Boeing 707. John Kennedy got a newer one ("It's magnificent. I'll take it"), and the tradition of Air Force One was born at the same time Kennedy headed America for the moon...
...first began courting conservative Democrats by inviting 40 of them to breakfast, O'Neill was stung. The problem of how to deal with the disarming Reagan puzzled and gnawed at him. "I've never been up against a Republican like him," he told friends, pointing out that Dwight Eisenhower was also popular, but not as skillfully partisan as Reagan...
...Omar Bradley, the five-star G.I.'s general [April 20]. You stated that since the Civil War the title General of the Army, which has the insignia of five stars, has been held by only five gentlemen: Omar Bradley, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and Dwight Eisenhower. You should also have mentioned John J. Pershing, who held the slightly different but even more impressive rank General of the Armies...