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...President Dwight Eisenhower was asked if he thought the U.S., in an attempt to cope with the population explosion at home and abroad, should play an open, active role in supporting birth control. Said Ike: "I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper political or governmental activity or function or responsibility...
Still, he makes a brave try, recording scores of small but interesting scenes. There is President Johnson, the day after he took office, emotionally telling Dwight Eisenhower "that it was up to him to carry out the Kennedy dream, the Kennedy vision"-and being advised to buckle down to work right away on the budget and the economy. (He did.) There is Barry Goldwater, musing about foreign policy: "Let's lob one into the men's room of the Kremlin." There is Lyndon, dressing for the Atlantic City convention with the door of his White House bedroom open...
...coastline overhung with the etched shapes of the famed Monterey cypresses, which need yield nothing in beauty to Italy's justly celebrated sea pines. Deer wander across the golf course near Del Monte Lodge, the sumptuous peninsula hotel. Pebble Beach is a favored course of such diverse luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower and Bing Crosby...
...discussed article-a cruel, 11,000-word evisceration of The New Yorker. That piece set literary jowls aquiver from Morningside Heights to Greenwich Village, and threw New Yorker staffers into a spate of semi-public wig flippings that are still going on-notably in a bitter rebuttal that Writer Dwight Macdonald is preparing for the biweekly New York Review of Books...
...Critic Dwight Macdonald spent most of his time soliciting signatures on a petition proclaiming: "We share...