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...critical optic of this new "multicultural" perspective, American history as it was once written -- those often tedious treks from Christopher Columbus to Dwight Eisenhower -- leaves out too much, namely nearly everyone who was not a white male. Some adherents go further, questioning whether the Western ideas and ideals that gave birth to America discriminate against people from other traditions. A more radical school argues that those values are no more than the ethnic expression of "Eurocentric" culture and should be taught only as such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Stories: Whose America? | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

Every day, managers across America must summon the courage to let inept subordinates go, but somehow occupants of the Oval Office seem unable to deliver the bad news. In 1958 Dwight Eisenhower endured the turmoil surrounding his chief aide, Sherman Adams, accused of taking favors from wealthy industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Then one day Ike decided he had to make "the hardest, most hurtful decision" he had ever made and fire Adams. Even then he could not do it face-to-face. He summoned Republican National Committee chairman Meade Alcorn and handed him "the dirtiest job I could give you." Alcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Why Bush Has Trouble Firing Sununu | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...complementary running mate, someone to shore up a weak side -- to lend geographical or ideological balance, for example. Conservative Californian Ronald Reagan picked Connecticut-Texas moderate George Bush. It may be a matter of ages, aesthetics, chemistry and coloring, as well as political alliances. Elder, moderate, military statesman Dwight Eisenhower chose younger, nastier, darker, feistier conservative Richard Nixon. At some time down the line, national tickets will be balanced by sex and race as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Destiny Of a Vice President | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...allowed," Sununu said in a January 1990 interview with the Union Leader. He added that "from what I know," Loon Mountain's proposed expansion "falls into that category." It is mildly ironic that one of the founders of the Loon Mountain resort is Sununu's political idol, Sherman Adams, Dwight Eisenhower's former special assistant, who was forced to resign that position in 1958 because he accepted a vicuna coat and other gifts from a Boston industrialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fly Free Or Die | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...little research in the New York phone book turned up the name of Sheila Kurtz, a certified master graphologist who has analyzed the scribblings of Dwight Gooden, Barbara Bush and Donald Trump, among others...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: The Content of His Character | 5/10/1991 | See Source »

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