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...Lyndon Johnson would go down to Eisenhower's White House breathing partisan fire, but something magic always happened when the old General uncorked the bourbon and told the Texans how much he admired them and needed them. Back on the Hill, those two passed the legislation that Ike wanted and a little extra for themselves. And it was about that time that Lyndon Johnson brought up some of that country wisdom of his. "After all," he would say, "he's the only President we've got." That is a far cry from what...
...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...
...When they reached the Capitol, they went to the sergeant-at-arms' office to wait for the summons to the platform. Ike suddenly turned to Dad and said: 'I wonder who is responsible for my son John being ordered to Washington from Korea? I wonder who is trying to embarrass...
...ordered John Eisenhower home as a gesture of thoughtfulness. He was not serving in the front lines or in any vital role in the Army, so there was no reason to accuse either his father or Dad of favoritism, or of endangering the public interest. It astonished Dad that Ike resented his gesture. It still astonishes...
...irony. As the special Kennedy sense of in finite promise has lost its magic, inevitably the man who suffered most by comparison with Camelot is now benefiting. Out of the long grass adjoining Camelot a golf ball soars into the sun. Five years ago, who would have believed it? Ike Eisenhower is out of the rough and decently back on history's fairway...