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...paper's targets have included Dwight Eisenhower ("that stinking hypocrite"), John Kennedy ("the No. 1 liar in the U.S.A."), Henry Kissinger ("Kissinger the Kike") and Edmund Muskie, who was driven to tears-and a fatally poor showing-during the state's 1972 presidential primary by a Union Leader description of his wife Jane as a heavy drinker with a fondness for gamy jokes...
...Cabinet, Carla Hills took command of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the third woman to serve in the Cabinet (after F.D.R.'s Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and Dwight Eisenhower's HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby...
...World War II, modified DC-3s served as troop and cargo carriers, hospital planes and even as a kind of bomber. Dwight Eisenhower hailed the plane as one of the five pieces of equipment that did most to win World War II. Said Founder Donald W. Douglas, 83, at commemorative ceremonies in Santa Monica, Calif., last week: "In a parody of Ol' Man River, she flies...
...eagerness to curry favor with Presidents by using agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gather political information. The committee staffs report shows that Hoover willingly complied with improper requests from Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. He gratuitously offered political intelligence to Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, but both seemed unimpressed...
...since 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower, a victorious general with some extra dimensions, squared off against the eloquent Governor Adlai Stevenson, have a large majority of Americans felt they were given a choice between two first-rate candidates, either of whom could lead the nation well. By 1956 both Ike and Stevenson had lost a little of their luster. Since then, more and more Americans have voted with deep misgivings. They have been worried that their own candidate was flawed, or that his opponent would be a disaster-or both. Nixon-Kennedy, Goldwater-Johnson, Nixon-Humphrey, Nixon-Mc-Govern. Increasingly...