Word: dwights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Clinton story raises the old questions about the "character issue" and the relevance of the sex lives of politicians. It is an issue that rounds up the usual suspects: John Kennedy and his girlfriends, Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ulysses S. Grant...
Saying different things to different audiences is not exactly uncommon in politics. And ever since Dwight Eisenhower complained that his golf game suffered because someone was "always yelling Nasser at the top of my backswing," every politician with national ambitions has been attuned to how his Middle East views play on the U.S. political scene. Today's Democratic contenders are no exception. Even those who are toying with isolationism make an exception for Israel. They know that American Jews are a bountiful source of campaign contributions and that they vote in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population...
...Axis was as good as routed in Africa. On May 12, 1943, the Americans and the British staged a gigantic pincers movement to win the battle for Tunisia -- the essential staging point for invading Sicily and Italy. Some 150,000 Axis soldiers were taken prisoner. The Germans, wrote General Dwight Eisenhower, commander in chief of U.S. forces in North Africa at the time, "were compelled after Tunisia to think only of the protection of conquests rather than their enlargement...
When you get elected president four times, people start to imitate you. After FDR, everyone had to have three names. Harry S. Truman holds the distinction of being the only president to go by his middle initial and middle name at the same time. Dwight David Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard M. Nixon all used one or the other. ("Milhous," Nixon's middle name, sounded like another word for puke and looked misspelled anyway. But he had to be RMN--his autobiography is even called RMN--since FDR, JFK and LBJ had so much fun with...