Word: ike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the archives the commission exhumed the stories of Truman's defense budget, Ike's U-2 crisis, Kennedy's Operation Mongoose (the plot against Castro), Carter's treatment of the Shah and many other shadowy maneuvers from the past...
...more casual style. Thus when he saw the picture of Hart in New Hampshire sporting a hairstyle that seemed 20 years old, his fingers itched to attack the mop. "How come you don't see any bald men among the top candidates?" asks the hair stylist. Good point. Baldie Ike made his mark in the military and then defeated Baldies Taft and Stevenson on his way to the White House. End of the baldie run.The barber almost saved Gerald Ford in the campaign of 1976. He had Ford dump the Vitalis, and then he trimmed the President closer...
Then it struck me. Eisenhower. Ike. The man won a war and then made it big in Washington. Maybe if I could add a little turf to Mother Russia a grateful Russian people would reward me with a top post, in addition to a hearty round of applause...
Larry Speakes, 47, left his job last week after five years ten months one day and nine hours as the President's spokesman, the longest tenure in that chamber of horrors since James Hagerty served Ike, twelve press officers...
...Sounds familiar," suggests one of Washington's distinguished barristers, who used to work for Eisenhower. Congress lives on details. Most Presidents hate them. "That man does not deserve to be President," roared Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson one day about Ike. Reason: Johnson had asked the President about several programs and pieces of legislation, and Ike wasn't sure what they were about and was utterly baffled over which committees were considering them...