Word: ike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Truman gave up the haunted house he never really liked and retired to private life, he had a chilly meeting with his successor, Dwight Eisenhower. Margaret describes their drive together to Ike's inauguration...
...There was very little conversation during their one-mile ride to the Capitol. Ike remarked that he had not come to the 1948 inauguration because he did not want to attract attention from the President...
...want to thank you for your article "That T-Bone Religion" [Dec. 11]. I only wish there were more men like Reverend Ike. We might then get away from an altruistic morality that keeps the world in despair and poverty...
...massive bombing of North Viet Nam of the whole long war. One top Administration official said last week that Nixon's behavior was influenced by the way in which Dwight Eisenhower ended the Korean War. "You remember," the official said, "that the talks with North Korea were bogged down. Ike took over and immediately ordered massive bombing of North Korea, including the dikes. Nixon was Vice President then, and he says that, however much of a peaceful image Ike struck, his show of strength worked...
...Much of which apparently comes under the heading of expenses. Ike's salary is $40,000 a year, but the church pays for his traveling expenses, owns his Hollywood and New York residences, two Rolls-Royces, two Mercedes and a Bentley...