Word: ike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applause swell for past dramas: Ike before worshipful masses in Seoul; Kennedy firm-jawed at the Berlin Wall; L.B.J. staring down Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro; Nixon clinking glasses in the Great Hall with Chou Enlai, then eating Wheaties in the Kremlin; Ford grinning beneath his fur hat in the snows of Vladivostok with Leonid Brezhnev. Worthy acts. But the world changes...
EISENHOWER. Responding to an invitation from Ike to brief his Cabinet on racial tensions early in 1956, Hoover rambled on about the lobbying efforts of the N.A.A.C.P. and some Communist groups to influence civil rights legislation, and about the anti-integration activities of Southern politicians...
...since 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower, a victorious general with some extra dimensions, squared off against the eloquent Governor Adlai Stevenson, have a large majority of Americans felt they were given a choice between two first-rate candidates, either of whom could lead the nation well. By 1956 both Ike and Stevenson had lost a little of their luster. Since then, more and more Americans have voted with deep misgivings. They have been worried that their own candidate was flawed, or that his opponent would be a disaster-or both. Nixon-Kennedy, Goldwater-Johnson, Nixon-Humphrey, Nixon-Mc-Govern. Increasingly...
...national political correspondent, Robert Ajemian, got his first up-close look at the special tensions and frustrations of presidential campaigning when he covered Dwight Eisenhower's drive for the White House in 1952. He recalls one occasion when an exhausted Ike roundly chewed out some of his aides on a Manhattan street after fumbling an important speech because of a glitch in a TelePrompTer machine. Having witnessed similar episodes in other campaigns-as correspondent, political editor and later assistant managing editor at LIFE, Ajemian confesses: "I admire politicians enormously. They are the best of the survivalists. They get battered...
...most part he avoided any public posturing. He did not go to Little Rock and lead black children through angry crowds, as some people wanted him to do in the nation's first school integration crisis. When his advance team ran into protests in Japan in 1959, Ike simply canceled his plans to visit that part of Asia and played golf in Hawaii...