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...oldest previously elected Presidents and their ages when inaugurated: William Henry Harrison, 68; James Buchanan, 65; Zachary Taylor, 64; Dwight Eisenhower, 62; Andrew Jackson, 61; John Adams...
...Lyndon Johnson started, and Richard Nixon finished, running up a $3.2 billion surplus in fiscal 1969. Dwight Eisenhower balanced the budget three times, in 1955, 1956 and 1960; Harry Truman did it four times, in 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1951. Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Gerald Ford never...
Even as it levels death blows at the over-confident, New Hampshire gives an incalculable boost--in publicity and attention, credibility and money--to candidates who emerge unscathed. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the war hero, finally forced to declare his party, blitzkrieged Robert Taft in 1952; John F. Kennedy '40 impressed regulars by mopping up in 1960; it's after New Hampshire that the survivors start giving their aides funny looks, wondering who's going to fit in which Cabinet slot. Sometimes New Hampshire just plays the non sequitur: with two hot-to-trot Republicans (Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller...
Buckley's latest adventure, Who's on First, is used to skewer such unarmed opponents as Dwight Eisenhower, the State Department, the Congress and the U.N. But it also weaves a story only slightly less convoluted than its prose style. The year is 1956, when the cold war was gelid. The U.S. and the Soviets are racing to get the first satellite into orbit. While CIA Chief Allen Dulles frets and a viciously urbane Dean Acheson argues that a Soviet space triumph may be necessary to shake American complacency, the agency plans to kidnap a top Soviet scientist...
Harberger would probably enhance HIID's ties to the Economics faculty. The vote to tenure Harberger within Economics was, reportedly, 18 to 1, with Stephen A. Marglin, professor of Economics, casting the lone dissenting vote. Dwight H. Perkins, chairman of the department, was chairman of the search committee that recommended Harberger to Bok. Harberger is well-respected in his field as an accomplished and technically proficient economist. (This is not to say that the faculty of the Economics Department unanimously believe he is the right choice for the HIID. There are some prominent faculty members who privately oppose the appointment...