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...DWIGHT EISENHOWER: "Doubtless he shares the somewhat elementary conviction animating the American people that the primordial mission of the United States derives from a decree from heaven, and its preponderance is a matter of right. But the President is not vain nor his manner intransigent. He is a man of lofty conscience, determined to judge only on the basis of facts and to decide only upon the advice of qualified people...
...Acheson rotten apples were converted to falling dominoes by Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Dean Rusk embraced the theory throughout Kennedy and Johnson presidencies and Nixon dragged them forcefully to the fore when antiwar dissent rose. The rotten apple and domino visions of the world struggle could be defended in their time, but realities have changed, notably America's relative power vis-�-vis the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's own role in the Communist movement. In the heady days after the war, Americans felt, as French Journalist Andr� Fontaine says, "that they were the best, most...
Died. Major General Howard M. Snyder, 89, Army doctor, physical-fitness buff and sometime medical adviser to Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served Ike when he was Army Chief of Staff and Allied Supreme Commander in Europe, convinced him to give up smoking and, as official White House physician, encouraged his friend and President to take up painting and play more golf; of heart disease; in Washington...
...international cooperation, but we wanted to beat the Russians on our own. If they could send a satellite around the moon, we could send one around the sun and call it Pioneer or Ranger and make it send back bleeps and photographs and even the recorded voice of Dwight Eisenhower...
...Dwight Eisenhower, who grew up in nearby Abilene, was ending his presidency when the class of 1960 graduated from Salina High School. John Kennedy was two weeks away from the Democratic nomination. Recently, 195 members of Salina High's class of 1960 gathered from all over the nation for a reunion at Salina's Hilton Inn. They came partly out of nostalgia, but also out of curiosity-to see what the '60s had done to their classmates and their home town of 43,000 people. TIME'S William Friedman joined them and sent this report...