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Beyond Chivalry. Brassy Sarah McClendon did not begin calling attention to herself by needling Presidents until Dwight Eisenhower, by opening the presidential press conference to direct quotation and requiring reporters to identify themselves, gave her an irresistible chance for self-promotion. After the conference moved into the big audience medium of TV, Sarah found her true métier...
...under Dwight Eisenhower's skin with great regularity. In 1958, after Mrs. McClendon had begun an inquiry into the potentially "dictatorial" character of Ike's Pentagon reorganization plan, the President broke in angrily to ask: "Have you read the law?" When Reporter McClendon said she had, Ike hotly retorted: "No, you haven't, I don't think." On another occasion, exasperated beyond chivalry, Eisenhower demanded whether she was "asking a question or making a speech." Once he inquired of Reporter McClendon-who, in identifying herself, used to name one paper after another-"Do you get fired...
...Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to allow verbatim quotation of his press conferences, and got an eight-year kidding for his sprawling syntax. Now it turns out that John Kennedy can also forget just where and how a sentence got started. In fact, it is a little hard to guess which President said what...
President Dwight Eisenhower in 1955 asked Congress for money for a nuclear-powered merchant vessel, partly for the technological payoff, partly to impress on the world U.S. interest in the peaceful atom. The 22,000-ton Savannah now stands the taxpayers nearly $47 million-about 50% more than a similar-sized, conventional ship. She will be able to cruise 300,000 nautical miles on a single fueling of her reactor. At first, the Savannah will be operated by the Maritime Administration as a sort of atomic-age tramp steamer, carrying up to 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo...
Until the waning days of 1961, it was possible to argue that under Attorney General Robert Kennedy the Justice Department was actually showing itself easier on business than it had in the days of Dwight Eisenhower: in the first year of the Kennedy Administration the Justice Department brought fewer antitrust suits than it did in the last year of the Eisenhower Administration. Then, in one action, the Kennedy trustbusters more than made up the difference by unlimbering a startling new concept of antitrust enforcement...