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...other country quite matches the U.S. in the razzle-dazzle, freewheeling preaching of its religious pitchmen, and perhaps none of those preacher-salesmen is more bizarre than the Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as "Reverend Ike." One trait especially distinguishes Ike from the others: his clear-eyed, unabashed love of money and other things material. TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler heard that note loud and clear as he recently followed Reverend Ike from Los Angeles to Houston. Tyler's report...
Eyes shut, up on stage, Reverend Ike is having a vision: "I see myself . . . successful-prosperous-with money-and now, in my imagination, I open my . . . bankbook. Wowwwww! Gee. I paid all my bills and still I have that . . . terrific balance. Boy . . . that's a sharp car . . . It rides so easily: zooop! And now, here I am . . . on a . . . vacation. Here I am, on this beautiful beach . . . the water . . . coool . . . and later . . . room service? You have any good steaks down there? Yes . . . send up a nice T-bone . . . and a nice salad . . . and . . . a strawberry shortcake...
Bosomy ladies and men wearing carnations pass big red buckets around as the service ends. All those buckets of money march down front and Reverend Ike takes one of his quick, practiced glances at his diamond watch. While the people file out he climbs into his favorite Rolls, the two-tone rose one with a rose painted on the trunk, and heads for his next stop...
...year-old WASP middle-class Southerner. I liked Ike, backed Nixon against J.F.K., watched polls for Goldwater. worked for R.M.N. against H.H.H...
...former vice-president observed: "Voters quickly forget what a man says." The gems of which the editor reminds us--for Vidal is more an editor here than a playwright--are priceless. He brings back Nixon calling Eisenhower "complex and devious...in the best sense of those words," reporting that Ike made him feel "like the little boy caught with jam on his face," and denying that he ever made personalities a campaign issue. There are his speeches on Vietnam in direct contradiction to the facts, his announcement that the invasion of Cambodia was not an "invasion," his interference...