Word: ike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...IKE other Western capitals, Amsterdam has had its quota of student barricades, tear gas volleys and police baton charges. The youthful protesters, who used to be known as Provos (for provocateurs), rioted over almost everything from Crown Princess Beatrix's lavish wedding in 1966, when they tossed smoke bombs at the royal carriage, to the country's critical housing shortage. But new tactics were introduced early this year by the Kabouters, or Pixies, who decided that fun and games might be more effective than paving stones and smoke bombs...
...slogan, but the buck got to him only after it had filtered through his personal staff. Nor is it a new idea that the men who do the winnowing can exercise extraordinary power. Clark Clifford, a perennial adviser to postwar Democratic administrations, remembers an Eisenhower aide telling him that Ike was spared night work because his staff boiled 150-page memoranda down to two pages. Clifford replied: "There is only one trouble. If I could be the fellow who prepares the two-page memo, I'd be President instead of Ike...
...official circle is not so great as it might be, but to blame that upon his staff is hardly accurate. A President's staff is his own creature, and each President devises his own system. Nixon is far less isolated than Dwight Eisenhower was; for most of his Administration, Ike sat walled behind Assistant Sherman Adams. John Kennedy was undoubtedly more accessible than Nixon; he deliberately organized his staff to circumvent the massive federal bureaucracy. By contrast, Nixon has concentrated on trying to make the Government responsible to his aims?not always successfully. Lyndon Johnson was far more outgoing than...
Twenty-five years ago last week Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies at General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters in Reims. It was V-E day, the end of the crusade in Europe; to Americans and much of the world, Ike and his triumphant armies were the heroes of an un forgettable moment. The atomic bomb, the cold war, Korea, Viet Nam, were all ahead. Wrote Poet Phyllis McGinley...
...Senator from Vermont, from 1946 to 1958, and a leader in the fight against Joe McCarthy; of heart disease; in Springfield, Vt. More than once lawmakers chuckled at the homespun Flanders, who occasionally voted "yes or no-as the case may be" on Senate motions and once upbraided Ike for relaxing tariffs on imported clothespins. But there was no laughter in 1954 when he risked his career by becoming the first Republican to challenge the feared Wisconsin Senator. Charging that he belonged to "a one-man party whose name is McCarthyism," Flanders introduced the censure resolution that led to McCarthy...