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...Dwight Eisenhower filled his first Cabinet jobs (State, Defense, and Interior) on Nov. 20, and completed the nominating process on Dec. 1. In 1960, John Kennedy made his first Cabinet announcement (Health, Education and Welfare) on Dec. 1 and his last on Dec. 17. In 1968, Richard Nixon withheld his choices until he could present his entire Cabinet on television...
...were more like teen-agers than a woman in her thirties and a man in his fifties," recalls Kay Summersby Morgan in a forthcoming book. Past Forgetting-My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Summersby, who served as Ike's chauffeur, confidante and companion during much of World War II, wrote the book shortly before she died last year of cancer. An excerpt from her memoir, which appears in the December Ladies ' Home Journal, tells about off-duty hours spent together, mutual professions of love and, despite Ike's marriage to Mamie, plans for children. "We would...
Fresh out of Carleton College and fortified with a letter of introduction from one of his professors, Thomas B. Morgan came to New York City in 1949 for an interview at an earnest little journal of ideas called Politics. "You've got a job," said Editor Dwight Macdonald, handing Morgan a broom. "Sweep out the room. We just folded...
...When Dwight Eisenhower began to paint by the numbers, thousands of aging Americans who had harbored a secret conviction that they were latent Rembrandts set up easels and began to daub burnt umber and indigo onto keyed spaces of their canvas kits...
Later in the day, halfback Gary Gillis led a fired-up Kirkland team to a 12-8 win over Yale's Stillman-Timothy Dwight...