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...from an administration which forged diplomatic cables in an attempt to implicate a dead president in a murder plot. The burden of proof rests on those who try to claim that our politics has traditionally been as bad as they made it in 1972. They must show us that Dwight Eisenhower traded the public trust for a campaign contribution, that John Kennedy's staff was riddled with men subject to indictment, that Harry Truman was bugging Governor Dewey...
...DWIGHT EISENHOWER. Truman claimed that Ike was a "weak" commander during World War II, and that later he was a "coward" for not censuring Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy during his witch hunts for Reds in the Government. But what really ticked Truman off was a letter that he said Ike wrote General George Marshall, the Army's Chief of Staff, after the war asking to be relieved of duty so that he could divorce his wife Mamie and marry Kay Summersby, a British WAC who doubled as his driver and secretary during the campaign in Europe...
...convinced now that there is no way he can win, no matter what. He could give up every tape and hand over the key to the Oval Office and that's not going to be enough." University of Minnesota President Malcolm Moos, an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, has an even gloomier view. "He can't pull out of it, with the possible exception of contrived military crises...
Carefully Rehearsed. "Presidential television," they write, "means the ability to appear simultaneously on all national radio and television networks at prime, large-audience evening hours, virtually whenever and however the President wishes." Such appearances can be deceiving. In 1954, for instance, Dwight Eisenhower participated in a televised "dialogue" with his Cabinet that was presented as a spontaneous exchange. Actually, the session had been carefully rehearsed and scripted...
...know we're not dummies." Adds another: "We used to be nothing, now we're something." All of which is most fulfilling to Innovative Educator Lodwick, who confesses that he has not enjoyed himself so much since he was 19 and a bodyguard to General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. "I love these kids," he says. "I think school should be taught this way no matter what you're teaching. I'd take this program anywhere, to any city, to the gates of hell. It would work...