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...With all due respect to and admiration for his otherwise sterling qualities, it is my opinion that Dwight D. Eisenhower is more of a liability than an asset to the Republican Party, especially in letting the unrealistic Eastern Republican Party deadwood influence him against Goldwater-the only man who could hopefully halt the march down the demoralizing road of Socialism...
Telephone calls immediately went out to top Republicans across the U.S. -to Romney, Rockefeller, Ray Bliss. Dwight Eisenhower and many others. As Scranton later recalled his conversation with Ike: "I told him I was going to run. He simply said that was that, and it was fine, and I said thank you and I got off the phone." Dick Nixon was reached in London, where he had flown on private business. Scranton tried to tele phone Goldwater, failed, and sent him a telegram instead...
...Welcome." After hearing Scranton's announcement of candidacy, Dwight Eisenhower said, rather remarkably: "At last someone has done what I have urged." Romney and Rockefeller both praised Scranton's move, but neither promised to deliver his delegates. In London, Nixon said he thought Scranton was doing the right thing, but he remained neutral. But when he got back to New York, Nixon flashed his stiletto, said of Scranton: "If a man receives a phone call and changes his mind, he isn't a very strong man. He's got to make his own decisions...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...made history as well. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, CBS Reports presented a program about Dday. It started by showing Omaha Beach as it looks today -bathers, volleyballs, open sky, and little boys playing in the rotted shells of LSTs. Then Dwight D. Eisenhower walked up from the water's edge and began to talk about...