Word: ike
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...heartland, Ike as President had an intuitive sense of the dangers and opportunities facing the U.S. It was he, when the specter of Communist aggression haunted the Western world, who supported the vision of coexistence with the Russians. It was Eisenhower, the career officer and friend of businessmen, who warned in his last speech as President against "the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex...
...Ike had entered Walter Reed Army Hospital ten months ago, after he had suffered his fourth heart attack. Three more followed in close succession. Then, last week, came a 2-hour, 20-minute operation to remove an obstruction in the lower intestine, which can be a serious test of surgical skill under the best of circumstances. Eisenhower's age and cardiac history, which made it extremely hazardous for him to undergo anesthesia, added to the operation's delicacy. Yet the obstruction had to be cleared. Specialists consulted with the patient and his wife, then they announced: "The General...
...knows how to take orders as well as give them. He responds to the advice given to him." Ike was sipping tea and asking for his glasses so that he could do a little reading. Still, his doctors cautioned that two critical weeks must pass before he would be out of danger...
...week's end, the doctors, who had been amazed by Ike's resilience, were not making any predictions. As in the past, the former President rallied just as the watching world feared the worst. Though his condition remained serious, he managed to down a portion of gelatine for dessert, which doctors said he "ate with relish." For all this, it was evident that the old soldier was waging the biggest battle of his life...
...hurry to help pay for President Nixon's Inauguration festivities, it turned to Boston Entrepreneur Thomas Anthony Pappas. He raised the money in nine days of hectic telephoning to other friends of the G.O.P. Then Tom Pappas dropped in on some old acquaintances. He visited Ike and Mamie Eisenhower at Walter Reed Hospital, chatted with Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, and with Secretary of State William Rogers went over the names of some candidates for the post of U.S. Ambassador to Greece...