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Well, Aunt Jessie made it. And so did just about everybody else worth naming -except a few. Cousin Oriole, in her 70s, was not up to the trip. Dwight Eisenhower was taking the California sun, Harry Truman was feeling under the weather, and Jacqueline Kennedy wanted to avoid the inescapably painful comparisons. Uncle Huffman Baines was present, and so was Sam Houston Johnson, Lyndon's brother, and Mrs. Josephs Saunders, Lyndon's aunt, and Rodney White, Lyndon's nephew, and Ave Johnson Cox, Lyndon's cousin, and Lyndon's two sisters, Mrs. Birge Alexander...
...Motors Chairman. Frederic Donner, who made $800,000 in 1964.) Starting soon, the huge M.I.T. check will be made out in the name of a new man. Last week the fund announced that Kenneth L. Isaacs, 60, M.I.T.'s vice chairman for the past eleven years, will succeed Dwight P. Robinson Jr., 65, as board chairman...
...that brief span, he: > Brought to the office of the presidency a concept not favored by his immediate predecessors, who, except for Dwight Eisenhower, felt that a "strong" President had to fight with Congress. Always mindful of the presidency's great power, Johnson put into effect a new relationship with the other "coequal" branches of Government, thus achieving the truest partnership with Congress-in the checks-and-balances sense envisaged by the Constitution-in well over a century. His remarkable legislative record was crowned by the historic Civil Rights...
...presidency of the U.S. is enough to make anyone break out all over. Getting the ponderous machinery of the Federal Government to move is a task that would try Job, and Johnson is somewhat less patient. Harry Truman once described how it would be when Dwight Eisenhower replaced him. "He'll sit there and he'll say, 'Do this! Do that!' " said Truman. "And nothing will happen." In a memorable outburst, Franklin Roosevelt complained that it was tough enough getting action from the Treasury and State departments, but that "the Na-a-vy" beat...
...chairman's resignation reflected, to a great extent, their desire for vengeance against Goldwater himself (because he carried so many moderates down to defeat). Burch refused to quit, and Barry remained loyal. Looking for influential support, Goldwater asked for a meeting with two other former G.O.P. presidential candidates, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon...