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...high point in the campaign was Ike's pledge to visit Korea immediately if he was elected-a suggestion often credited to Journalist Emmet John Hughes, then a speechwriter on his staff, later author of a book bitterly attacking Eisenhower and his policies. Author Eisenhower, however, mentions Hughes not at all in this connection. Several groups were batting the idea around at the time, says Ike, and he gives most of the credit to Adviser C. D. Jackson. Hughes he later dismisses as "a writer with a talent for phrase-making." Ike takes due note of his own famed...
...Emmet Hughes, who calls himself a son of the New Deal era, demurs. He considers the Eisenhower years typical of American politics, not exceptional, and his book is less a memoir of the period than a lament for political purpose itself. Hughes joined the Eisenhower forces in 1952 as speech-writer and campaign strategist from a disinterested desire to save America's two-party system. He was less concerned about the possible arrogance and irresponsibility of a Democratic Party too long in power than about the increasing unreality of Republican leadership and policies too long without the experience of leading...
...perhaps, is a hero to his valet. But in The Ordeal of Power, Journalist Emmet John Hughes uses his experiences as an Eisenhower speechwriter to strip not only Ike but almost everyone around him as well...
Newsmen on the move: > Emmet John Hughes, 41, is quitting as policy adviser to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, will become columnist for Newsweek. A former TIME chief of correspondents, Hughes turned behind-scenes political strategist and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, shifted to Rockefeller in 1960. But in such work, he says, he missed the pleasure of speaking his own mind. He has already written America the Vincible, a turgid criticism of Eisenhower's foreign policy; now he is prepared to take another public swipe at his old boss with a new book, Eisenhower: A Political Memoir...
However, in the New York Times of May 12, 1940 (about six months earlier), Jack Gould's article, "The Broadway Stage Has Its First War Play," quoted the late Robert Emmet Sherwood as saying that "this country is already, in effect, an arsenal for the democratic Allies." Sherwood, in his biography Roosevelt and Hopkins, treats this phrase gingerly...