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...three hours a day on the telephone, lobbying with Senators against the Byrd amendment. The Democratic Administration received valuable support from Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton, chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee from 1959-61. Morton arose on the Senate floor to remind his Republican colleagues that Dwight Eisenhower had sought, and been refused, just such long-term foreign aid authority in 1957. He cited the words of Republican Secretary of State John Foster Dulles: "Economic development is a long-term process, not an annual event...
...friend. A lifelong Republican, Dillon worked with John Foster Dulles on the 1948 presidential campaign of New York's Tom Dewey; a year later he won an election as a G.O.P. state committeeman. In 1952 he helped secure New Jersey's Republican delegation for Presidential Candidate Dwight Eisenhower, contributed heavily to Ike's campaign chest. After the election, on Dulles' recommendation, Dillon got an impressive spoil of victory: the ambassadorship to Paris...
Smith's career was closely meshed with that of Dwight Eisenhower, a man he served in peace and war. Ike called him "the general manager" of World War II in the European theater. It was a well-earned title: as Ike's chief of staff, Smith had as big a hand as anyone in the planning and execution of every military action from the invasion of North Africa to the final defeat of the Nazis. His was the tedious job of overseeing every elaborate detail, committing fact and figure to memory, and then distilling the plans...
...Truman assigned Smith to another tour of duty-to clean up the Central Intelligence Agency, then under a cloud because of inept intelligence in the Korean war. Smith swept house ruthlessly (in his first month as CIA chief, he fired 600 employees). Three years later, when Dwight Eisenhower became President, he transferred his old friend and aide to the State Department, as John Foster Dulles' under secretary and general manager of the U.S. Foreign Service. In 1954, after 44 years of public service, Beedle Smith retired to civilian life, as vice chairman of American Machine & Foundry...
High among the retirement problems facing Dwight D. Eisenhower, 70, has been the fact that after 20 chauffeu-sheltered years as general and President he no longer knew how to pilot any vehicle more complicated than a caddie cart. Last week-after studiously familiarizing himself with the mechanical mutants currently surviving Detroit's Darwinian struggle-Ike spun a 1958 Imperial through a Pennsylvania license test with all the aplomb of Stirling Moss. Final verdict on the General of the Army by his police corporal examiner: "An excellent driver...