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Fresh from being elected national board chairman of the English-Speaking Union of the U.S., Dwight Eisenhower was in New York to honor a friend. "I want you to know how deeply I'm obligated and grateful to you," Ike told Dr. Paul Dudley White, 77, as he presented the heart specialist with a gold-plated stethoscope from the International Cardiology Foundation. Ike knew the gadget really worked, had already checked White's heart with it. The doctor was in the mood for gentle fun, too, calling Ike his "ideal" patient, who "through his most felicitous recovery...
MANDATE FOR CHANGE by Dwight D. Eisenhower. 650 pages. Doubleday...
Ringing in German ears were the words of a former U.S. President and leader of NATO, Dwight D. Eisenhower. "I believe the time has now come when we should start removing some of those troops," declared Ike in a Saturday Evening Post article. "One American division in Europe can 'show the flag' as definitely as several." Next came a speech by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, who forecast a "new phase" in American troop commitments abroad and "useful reductions in overseas military expenditures...
...drive for next year's Repub lican presidential nomination, Barry Goldwater has been badly bothered by the widespread report (true) that Senior Republican Dwight Eisenhower was mad at him, and the notion (un true) that Ike would actively oppose his candidacy...
Nunn, who successfully managed the 1956 Kentucky campaigns for Dwight Eisenhower and Republican Senators John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, is a respected politician whose denial of this groin-type tactic seems worthy of belief. But there is no question that Nunn is using the civil rights issue for all it is worth, and that may be plenty in border state Kentucky. He was handed a readymade platform when Governor Bert Combs issued an executive order last June banning discrimination in all business establishments licensed by the state. Combs is not allowed to succeed himself, and Breathitt is his hand...