Word: ike
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...Ike and Kennedy edged up from previous ratings...
Northerners were easier on Rutherford B. Hayes than the experts in other regions. The South had a special feeling for the last Whig, Millard Fillmore. The Midwest gave Truman and Ike an edge. In almost every instance, a historian studying a specific President was more sympathetic to him. Military historians downgraded the Naval Academy's own Jimmy Carter. Afro-American historians rated Jefferson relatively lower; Western and Frontier historians put him higher...
Stassen tried again four years later but managed to go to the convention with only 19 delegates. He soon threw his support behind Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike remembered and later made Stassen chairman of the Foreign Operations Administration. In 1955 he moved up to the cabinet level post of special assistant for disarmament. A hawk who had advocated the use of nuclear weapons against China during the Korean War but a strong advocate of negotiation, he was in charge formulating the "Open Skies" proposal and negotiating an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union. But he embarrassed Eisenhower...
...terms, though, Ike seemed archaic and gray. The virile young man in top hat who rode with him down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1961 had promised to "get the country moving again." That bright Inauguration Day, Kennedy brought Robert Frost to read a special poem for the occasion. The glare of sun on new-fallen snow bunded the aged poet, and so he recited another poem from memory. The poem he did not read that day contained these lines for the Kennedy...
Drew Middleton, military analyst of the New York Times, remembers being one of days 30 correspondents briefed by General Eisenhower a full ten days be fore the Allied invasion of Sicily. Ike outlined in detail which divisions would land where so that the press could follow the campaign intelligently. Correspondents could not even hint of the invasion through censorship, but nobody expected them to: trust was mutual. Korea was fought without censorship. Yet James A. Bell, who covered No Name Ridge and other battles for TIME, was among cor respondents told days in advance of the landing at Inchon, which...