Word: ike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Navy will return defending champs Ted Bregar in the weight throw, Jim Campbell in the long jump, Ike Owens in the 60-yard dash, and Jeff Kramer in the mile. All four could garner top laurels in the ten team competition...
Westmoreland makes no secret about his interest in the job, saying that he thinks "more nonprofessional politicians should run for office." But there are problems with jumping into an Eisenhower-like political career, even on the state level. For one thing, Westmoreland must first decide, as Ike did, whether he is a Democrat or a Republican. He has never even voted, much less joined a political party. "I always encouraged nonprofessional soldiers to vote, but as a career officer I would not be partisan," he explains. "I had to give my complete loyalty to whoever was Commander in Chief. Then...
Substitute Family. Bobbie likes his fellow cons and he likes to work, mostly as a janitor. "I think he knows us better than anybody else," says Deputy Warden Paul Hedgepeth. "Maybe we're the substitute for things that he lacked in life-ike a family...
...dinner in the State Dining Room with 25 Democratic Congressmen, mostly from the South, was no smashing success either. One listener described Nixon as "taut and extremely tense, gesturing wildly." North Carolina's Ike Andrews found Nixon relaxed and jovial but the situation awkward. Said he: "We were guests in his home?it makes it difficult to ask him questions. The first question was about the Middle East, and he took 21 minutes to answer it. There were a couple more innocuous questions, then somebody said politely, 'Thank you for this pleasant evening, but most of us thought...
DWIGHT EISENHOWER. Truman claimed that Ike was a "weak" commander during World War II, and that later he was a "coward" for not censuring Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy during his witch hunts for Reds in the Government. But what really ticked Truman off was a letter that he said Ike wrote General George Marshall, the Army's Chief of Staff, after the war asking to be relieved of duty so that he could divorce his wife Mamie and marry Kay Summersby, a British WAC who doubled as his driver and secretary during the campaign in Europe...