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...running dialogue with Russian leaders that alternated between breezy quips and heated debates. But a split gradually opened between Bohlen and John Foster Dulles; the Secretary of State paid little heed to his ambassador's advice about the Russians. In 1957, against Bohlen's wishes, President Dwight Eisenhower pulled him out of Moscow and made him Ambassador to the Philippines. There, though he started from scratch, Bohlen did a typically professional job, helped maintain U.S. -Philippine ties at a time when the island nation was trying to become less dependent on its old supporter and ally...
Stepping off the train in Stockholm, Dwight Eisenhower knew reporters would be asking him about his 1960 remarks blaming Sweden's high suicide rate, drunkenness, and lack of ambition on its social welfare state. Ike's first words were: "Before anybody gets a chance to ask, I want to make clear that the remark about Sweden was based on what I had read in an American magazine. Since then, I have−had many friends who have returned from Sweden and told me that I was wrong. I admit it and apologize for my error." Later, touring...
...Last fall Dwight Eisenhower led a band of Pennsylvania Republicans who urged Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., Ike's last and ablest Defense Secretary, to be their candidate for Governor or U.S. Senator this year. After agonizing over the decision, Tom Gates refused. Only a few months earlier, he had accepted a job as chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., whose assets of $5.2 billion make it the fifth largest U.S. bank, and he did not want to leave that job. Last week the full reason for Gates's decision became clear...
...Washington, but ahead of Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Jefferson. Harry Truman, in the historians' view, belongs among the Near Greats, in ninth place, not quite up to James Polk but more highly regarded than John Adams or Grover Cleveland. Next to the last among twelve Average Presidents was Dwight D. Eisenhower, who ranks 22nd, and comes in ahead only of the impeached Andrew Johnson. The two complete failures on the list: postwar Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding. The criterion was achievement, said Schlesinger: whether a President's statecraft was creative, his work affected the nation...
Flanked by his wife and two grandchildren, Dwight Eisenhower, 71, was on a six-week sentimental journey to Europe, his first trip abroad as a private citizen. Cornered by a group of Danish newsmen in Copenhagen, he said he did not intend to be drawn into a discussion of U.S. politics, but when he was asked if he regretted any of his decisions during his two terms in office, Ike answered: "The worst mistake I made was in not working harder to elect the man I thought should be my successor...