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...Welcomed Dwight Eisenhower to the White House for an evening's chat about Viet Nam and steel; L.B.J. read his guest a letter from a mother who said that one son had been killed in Viet Nam, while another was in the armed services in Colorado. Said...
With due ceremony, the Denison, Texas, school board decided to rename the local high school in honor of Dwight David Eisenhower, 74, who was born in that little two-story frame house near the tracks. Would Ike attend? He'd be delighted. So everything was arranged, until some townspeople started to grumble. Why, they sniffed, that Eisenhower boy lived here only three months before the family moved up to Abilene. And hadn't one of the papers said he was "born in Denison by accident"? The school board backed off, sheepishly offered to name, well, the school auditorium...
Wrong Impression. The G.O.P. document traced the ever-deepening U.S. commitment in Viet Nam: Harry Truman's 1950 decision to aid the French in Indo-China; Dwight Eisenhower's 1954 pledge to support Ngo Dinh Diem's fledgling South Vietnamese government, principally with economic aid; John F. Kennedy's 1961 decision to expand the U.S. military effort as Laos crumbled and Viet Cong terror increased; and Lyndon's massive intensification of the U.S. involvement...
...Tower." The question-and-answer passages could have been custom-scripted. What about those Republicans who criticize his conduct of the Viet Nam war? Just give them time, L.B.J. suggested. Some day they may grow up to be good Republicans-like the "distinguished Secretary of Defense" once was, or Dwight Eisenhower, whose diplomatic, political and military wisdom has been "a tower of strength...
...Echoing, in an urban way, Dwight Eisenhower's reminiscence about his Kansas boyhood: "I was of a big family of boys, six of us. And we were very poor, but the point is we didn't know we were poor...