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...meeting since last May, or even a Cabinet meeting in more than two months. Last week he revealed that he will not present his annual State of the Union message personally to the Congress, with which he is feuding,-the first such omission by a President since 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower was recovering from a heart attack. Nixon's wholesale dismissal of various Administration officials similarly was accomplished through the indirect device of demanding the resignations of all appointees, then selecting whom to retain, rather than personally calling in the condemned to be fired...
...President in world affairs. Although there had been some legislative protests when various Presidents had ignored the constitutional war-making powers of Congress by sending troops briefly into Latin American republics in the 1920s, there was little complaint when Harry Truman committed U.S. forces to Korea and Dwight Eisenhower ordered Marines to Lebanon. John Kennedy kept Congress ignorant of his plans to invade Cuba, and Lyndon Johnson merely informed Congress that he was sending troops in huge numbers into Viet Nam. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving Johnson a free hand and later repealed under President Nixon-but without...
Senate Pentagon Critic William Proxmire declares that "the Navy and Grumman are not slugging it out but doing a minuet to deceive the American public." Whether or not culpability extends that far, the hyphen that separates the military-industrial complex-the phrase that President Dwight D. Eisenhower popularized twelve years ago this month-may have grown one notch shorter...
When Truman gave up the haunted house he never really liked and retired to private life, he had a chilly meeting with his successor, Dwight Eisenhower. Margaret describes their drive together to Ike's inauguration...
...limbs in Southeast Asia entitled. A Farewell to Arms. The first number of True Romance Languages, an intradepartmental magazine, stirs up mid-summer passions at the Faculty Club. Doris Kearns fictionalizes her biography of Lady Bird Johnson The Early Years and retitles it Tell me that you Love Mr. Dwight Le Merton Bolinger...