Word: ike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scholars like Rutgers' Emmet John Hughes, who wrote for Ike, wonder if Carter would not be better off with more limited and formal rhetoric. Harry McPherson, one of L.B.J.'s speechmen, has long contended that important presidential speeches are far more than just speeches. When done properly, they force an Administration through a laborious internal process, establishing directions, making decisions, hammering out exact language and calculating how to arrest attention and enlist the public. If the preliminaries are not done, or are done badly, the speech is rarely worth anything and is frequently alarming for the evidence...
That, of course, leaves amiable Cecil Andrus in the unenviable position of the Government's main enforcer-caught between the letter of the law and the anger of Western farmers. As a former Governor of Idaho, where a middling potato farm can cover 580 acres, Andrus would ike to see the law changed. "We may ask Congress to amend the language of the 1902 act," Andrus told TIME last week, "but basically the true family farmer has nothing to worry about...
...York City, number no more than 20. They include such well-known investment houses as Salomon Brothers; Bache Halsey Stuart; Goldman, Sachs; and Lehman Brothers, which make arbitrage purchases for their own accounts, on behalf of wealthy clients, or both. There are also a few individual operators, ike Ivan Boesky, a lawyer, accountant, and security analyst. He set up his own firm two years ago to deal exclusively in arbitrage, and boasts that he works 18 hours a day at the game. Boesky, an immaculate dresser and a devotee of squash who once taught English literature in Iran, made...
...course, no handbook on how to be a successful President. Every Chief Executive has had to blend his special strengths into a formula for leadership. Franklin Roosevelt prided himself on his ability to charm and convince. Truman had a remarkable sense of history, and he had good-sense guts. Ike had perhaps the most refined sense of honor of any modern President. He trusted the system, he trusted the American people, and they in turn returned that trust. John Kennedy had style, some substance and a lot of combativeness. Nixon knew power and the world, and for a spell that...
...their failure to report his hyperactive sex life was a coverup, as Lasky charges, is doubtful. Rightly or wrongly, the sexual excesses of politicians had not been seen as newsworthy until the advent of post-Watergate morality. It was hardly a partisan matter; widely rumored dalliances by F.D.R. and Ike went unreported too at the time. The bedtime habits of a President, moreover, are scarcely on a par with the Watergate-related crimes of the Nixon White House...