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...practical purposes, was the acting President in Nixon's last anguished days. After helping Gerald Ford settle into office, last October Haig was picked by the new President to be Supreme Allied Commander Europe, following a succession of geopolitically minded U.S. generals that began with Dwight Eisenhower. Criticized for his service under Nixon, Haig has aimed "to learn my job, keep my mouth shut and direct my energy to helping make policy." Last week in his first on-the-record interview with a U.S. newsman since he became NATO commander, Haig met for 60 minutes with TIME Correspondent Dean...
...Trumania can be ascribed to nostalgia, the phenomenon that glamorizes everything in the rear-view mirror. But mostly it is the fallout from Watergate. After the chilling scandals of the Nixon regime, the little ex-haberdasher from Missouri seems fit for Mount Rushmore. Of recent Presidents, only Truman and Dwight Eisenhower (whom H.S.T. resented) were able to retire from office with their reputations largely intact. Yet Truman never wasted a second polishing his image. He actively campaigned for Adlai Stevenson as the man to succeed him as Democratic standard bearer-but grumbled that the Hamlet-like Illinois Governor...
...Minh was not a Kaiser or a Hitler, and there were at first no massed armies sweeping over traditional allied lands that made an American response automatic. There was not even a Korean type of open aggression that could trigger an easy and obvious presidential order to counterattack. From Dwight Eisenhower down to Gerald Ford, the Viet Nam decisions were more the stuff of character of a single man than in any other major conflict this nation has fought...
...Dwight N. Perkins, professor of Government and an expert on East Asian affairs, said last night that he is "relieved that the war is over" and said he expects that the U.S. will direct itself to settling the refugee problem in the coming months...
...with his dreams of a nation of enlightened yeomen, is sullied by the picture of Lyndon Johnson sending B-52s to bomb the peasants of North Vietnam. The thought of Samuel Adams, fervently orating on the imperative of American independence, becomes confounded with the image of American leaders like Dwight Eisenhower sending troops to Korea...