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...convinced that many local youngsters would do all right if a school would just give them a chance. Impulsively he dashed off a letter to a man he had never met but had always considered "a hero of mine and a unique person in history" - Dwight Eisenhower. Skinner asked Ike's help in starting a college...
...another J.F.K.-and-I saga is forthcoming from former Frontiersman Kenneth O'Donnell, who vowed to keep silent after reading Eisenhower Speechwriter Emmet John Hughes's book about Ike. In O'Donnell's words: "You're in a man's office, and he trusts you, and then you do that-it's almost like a Peeping Tom." He was persuaded to write a book nonetheless. Meanwhile, says O'Donnell, he has turned down offers of corporation jobs paying up to $500,000 a year. Reason: he intends to run for Governor...
...Welcomed Dwight Eisenhower to the White House for an evening's chat about Viet Nam and steel; L.B.J. read his guest a letter from a mother who said that one son had been killed in Viet Nam, while another was in the armed services in Colorado. Said Ike...
With due ceremony, the Denison, Texas, school board decided to rename the local high school in honor of Dwight David Eisenhower, 74, who was born in that little two-story frame house near the tracks. Would Ike attend? He'd be delighted. So everything was arranged, until some townspeople started to grumble. Why, they sniffed, that Eisenhower boy lived here only three months before the family moved up to Abilene. And hadn't one of the papers said he was "born in Denison by accident"? The school board backed off, sheepishly offered to name, well, the school auditorium...
...Ike devoured westerns. J.F.K. was a Bond addict. What does Lyndon read? When repeatedly pressed by a newsman during the 1964 campaign, the President unenthusiastically produced a much unthumbed copy of the speeches of William Jennings Bryan. Recently, however, with no prompting at all, Johnson has been touting the L.B.J. Selection-of-the-Century: The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations by Britain's Barbara Ward. It sells for a dollar in paperback, its 159 pages largely devoted to the problems of Kikuyus and Kazakhs. Yet, avows the President, "I read it like I do the Bible...