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...German wit L. A. Feuerbach observed, is what he eats. The culinary tastes of Presidents may bear out that maxim. Under Dwight Eisenhower, a state dinner, served with military precision, might feature such Army-wife specialties as Mamie's cherished Chicken Jewel Salad Ring, a cloying confection that included cranberries, celery and almonds, epoxied with gelatin. During the Kennedy Administration, the sumptuary menus seemed intended to rate a star or two from Michelin. Lyndon Johnson introduced Texas ranch-house-chili cuisine to the White House...
Further assurance comes from Steiner, who said last week that independent appraisals from two outside assessors will keep the sale-prices honest. These appraisals were made separately by Dwight Andrews of Ellis and Andrews and Peter Baldwin of Dudley and Borland...
...Morton and White House Counsellor John O. Marsh Jr. The four were careful to sound out the views of the Cabinet and a wide circle of Ford's advisers and confidants, including Melvin Laird, the former Congressman and Secretary of Defense; Bryce Harlow, an aide to both Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Nixon; and Michigan's Robert Griffin, G.O.P. whip in the Senate...
...years after his flight, Lindbergh, now an aviation consultant, married Anne Morrow, the bright, pretty daughter of Dwight Morrow, a rich New York City banker who was then serving as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Anne was a writer, later destined for fame on her own, and together they settled down to a quiet, productive life in New Jersey. Peace was short-lived, however. In 1932, the Lindberghs' first and then only child, 20-month-old Charles Jr., was kidnaped from a second-floor nursery. Ten weeks later, the body was found in a shallow grave in some woods near...
...others: 1) Daniel Bell, 2) Noam Chomsky, 3) John Kenneth Galbraith, 4) Irving Howe, 5) Dwight Macdonald, 6) Susan Sontag, 7) Mary McCarthy...