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...when it works, De Antonio's sense of juxtaposition can be lethal. News film of Nixon's 1968 nomination acceptance speech ("Let's win this one for Ike") is intercut with footage of Pat O'Brien in Knute Rockne advising his lachrymose squad to "win one for the Gipper"-their hospitalized teammate, who, with anachronistic irony, was portrayed by Ronald Reagan. De Antonio is also shrewd enough to know when Nixon is his own worst enemy, and he devotes a long section of Millhouse to the Checkers speech alone. Reciting his list of assets, attempting...
...Never have a U.S. President and a Japanese Emperor met in the 117 years since Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet of U.S. "black ships" opened feudal Japan to the West. Dwight Eisenhower nearly made it to Japan in 1960, but massive demonstrations by anti-American students in Tokyo forced Ike to turn back. Initially, the plans for the Emperor's tour called for no presidential appearance at Anchorage. Tentatively, Mrs. Nixon or Julie and David Eisenhower were being considered to meet the royal couple; even Vice President Agnew was a possibility, despite his famous "Fat Jap" remark made during...
...dealings with U.S. leaders, Khrushchev often behaved brusquely and temperamentally. He disliked Richard Nixon, particularly after his 1959 debate with the then Vice President in the U.S. "kitchen exhibit" in Moscow. He respected Dwight Eisenhower, but this did not prevent him from savagely attacking Ike and torpedoing the 1960 summit conference following the U-2 overflight. He thought John Kennedy a pushover when they met in Vienna in 1961-a miscalculation that led directly to the Cuban missile crisis, which brought the world to the verge of nuclear war. Khrushchev proclaimed the confrontation a triumph because it ended...
...Died. Edgar N. Eisenhower, 82, corporation lawyer and elder brother (by 21 months) of the late President; of a stroke; in Tacoma, Wash. When Edgar publicly chided his brother for proposing an oversized budget in 1957, Ike shrugged: "Edgar has been criticizing me since I was five years old." The second of the seven Eisenhower brothers, "Big Ike," as Edgar was known, liked to recall how he and "Little Ike" would fight "for the sheer joy of slugging one another" during their boyhood days in Abilene, Kans. But when 14-year-old Dwight got blood poisoning after skinning his knee...
...Ike's executive order has led to what Florence calls a "mass of weird confusion" in the Defense Department. The department, for example, refused to make public the list of military installations where liquor is sold to servicemen by the bottle. The Army once classified as a military secret a modern adaptation of the bow and arrow. The Air Force stamped secret on pictures of the interiors of transport planes that had been remodeled with plush lounges for the comfort of traveling brass. The Navy put a secrecy stamp on a report of attacks by sharks on seamen, even...