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...some 550 more or less committed delegates, not including California's 86, was Ike convinced. At that point, he agreed to write a Republican "profile"-without mentioning names-that would detail the kind of G.O.P. candidate Ike really favors. Eisenhower started to draft the statement in his Gettysburg office on May 19, went to New York on May 22 and showed it to Thayer, handed a finished copy to Thayer in Gettysburg the next day, then phoned in some last-minute changes to the Herald Tribune...
...Hyattsville, Md. The speed limit was 15 m.p.h., but no arrest was made. After he left office, Harry Truman was stopped for cutting in front of a patrol car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. And Dwight Eisenhower used to be in such a hurry to get from Washington to his Gettysburg farm that reporters insisted they sometimes hit 100 m.p.h. on narrow Maryland highways trying to keep up. In 1957, vigilant state cops ordered part of the presidential motorcade to pull over, told trailing reporters they would have to obey the 55-m.p.h. limit, but allowed...
Beyond the Pages. As satire, Monocle falls somewhat short of Jonathan Swift -who may have been the last satirist to make a decent living. But Swift and Monocle chose the same targets: politics, pettifoggery and government. "I haven't checked these figures," began Monocle's Gettysburg Address as it might have been written by Dwight Eisenhower, "but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country. I don't like to appear to take sides...
...conscientious student, Lady Bird rattles off facts and figures. In the Lincoln bedroom, she points out Lincoln's handwritten copy of the Gettysburg Address, one of five in existence. She leads her guests through the Rose Room, noting that Queens Wilhelmina and Juliana of The Netherlands, Elizabeth II of England and Frederika of Greece all slept there during their U.S. visits. In the Treaty Room, she shows the ladies an immense chandelier that Jackie Kennedy retrieved from Capitol Hill; Teddy Roosevelt, Lady Bird said, had sent it to the Hill because its noisy tinkling bothered him, and he figured...
Eisenhower's name was being used-possibly in vain-by contenders other than Scranton. Harold Stassen, now a Philadelphia lawyer with a record of elective losses in Pennsylvania elections, announced that he would definitely try to be nominated. He had, said Stassen, visited Ike at Gettysburg several times and was encouraged to run after he got a letter from Eisenhower last month saying "you may be sure that there will be no lack of effort on my part to elect the ticket you should be heading"-if by some quirk Stassen should wind up heading a ticket somewhere...