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About to leave for Algiers, he got an urgent phone call from Mamie Eisenhower, who dictated a note to be delivered to her husband: "Dear Ike: Al will give you this note and give you a sweet kiss from me-and also a swift kick, because you haven't written for so long." Jolson delivered the message to General Eisenhower, commander in chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa. "Well," said Ike, "when you get back home, give Mrs. Eisenhower back that kiss. As for the other ..." Ike bent over, lifted the flap of his jacket and told...
...Reverend Ike. Ike doesn't promise pie in the sky when you die. He gives it to you now, with ice cream on top. You can also get his address so you can get the success idea of the week. But if everybody has the same idea, you have to wonder about getting the pie at all. Channel...
...their private homes. Until the Nixon Administration, those outlays were made by the Defense Department, which does not disclose the amounts or items and, like the GSA until now, may well have never bothered to add up what may have been spent on J.F.K.'s Hyannis Port home, Ike's Gettysburg farm or L.B.J.'s ranch...
...letter to a Cabinet member from John Ehrlichman began something like this: "The President has asked me to tell you how displeased he is with what you have done about ..." The Cabinet member was petrified that this letter would get out. "Can you imagine what would have happened under Ike or Johnson if such a letter had been received?" mused a White House man. "Their Cabinet members would have taken the White House apart...
...awesome new dimension to presidential responsibility, though the first two nuclear-age Presidents had a nice way of not taking themselves too seriously. Truman was fond of remarking that any of a million other men (this was pre-Women's Lib) were as well qualified to be President. Ike had a genial instinct that the republic would still be standing tomorrow morning if he played a round of golf this afternoon...