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...Senate, a resolution giving former Presidents the right to speak on the Senate floor. Urged by many a U.S. Senator and Representative since 1944, the resolution in effect offers the Senate floor as a forum for the counsel of the three living ex-Presidents-Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. The resolution, however, limits ex-Presidents to speeches delivered "upon appropriate notice," falls far short of other long-standing efforts to declare them "Senators at large" with full rights in voting and debate...
...major Goldwater worry is that Senior Republican Dwight Eisenhower is still mad at him for having cracked that "one Eisenhower in a decade is enough" when asked what he thought about Milton Eisenhower as a presidential possibility. Goldwater is trying to set things right with Ike. He has written Bryce Harlow, a key pipeline to Eisenhower, explaining that the remark was made in the context of the Kennedy dynasty issue, that he actually said the American people would not take another Kennedy after Jack, just as one Eisenhower in a decade was enough. Also, Goldwater Worker John Tower recently went...
...with his furious denunciation of the "radical right" in July. Among other things, this gave Barry a golden opportunity to go around preaching party unity. In his dark days, Rocky is having trouble finding a campaign manager with national status. He got a flat no from bulky Len Hall, Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 campaign-train manager, now is trying to enlist ex-G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn, a Dartmouth classmate...
...scores of 91-0, 87-6, 61-7. In December, Blough will receive the National Football Foundation's 1963 gold-medal award for "outstanding contributions to the game." How come? Well, deadpans the foundation, which in previous years has honored such All-American names as Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy, "Blough may not have been one of football's greatest players, but he was certainly one of the pluckiest ... an undersized, hard-playing lineman for an outmanned varsity...
...meticulousness and care with which she develops these ideas have contributed to her reputation as a leading historian. Her two books, Pioneers in Service and Ancestors and Immigrants explore the backgrounds of leading Americans. She is now editing Travels in New York and New England, the diary of Timothy Dwight, former president of Yale University; she enjoys studying New England, she says, "because I grew up here--and also, the people have always been so conscious of history...