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...Unopened Paper. All the while, Scranton stayed silent, telling nobody of his telephone talk with Ike. From the breakfast, he went to Cleveland's KYW-TV studios for his Face the Nation date. During his appearance, he kept his announcement of active candidacy, written on a twice-folded sheet of white paper, unopened on the table in front of him. For half an hour-and later in a press conference-he hemmed, hawed and hedged, adding little to the position he had taken for weeks. "If the majority of the delegates at the convention want me," he repeated over...
Telephone calls immediately went out to top Republicans across the U.S. -to Romney, Rockefeller, Ray Bliss. Dwight Eisenhower and many others. As Scranton later recalled his conversation with Ike: "I told him I was going to run. He simply said that was that, and it was fine, and I said thank you and I got off the phone." Dick Nixon was reached in London, where he had flown on private business. Scranton tried to tele phone Goldwater, failed, and sent him a telegram instead...
Eisenhower recalled the "little grin" on the meteorologist's face when he came in announcing a break for June 6. "It was the best of a bad bargain," Ike told Cronkite. "He predicted this good weather would last between 24 and 36 hours, but I said, 'O.K., we'll go,' and this room was emptied in two seconds...
Waiting Time. With Operation Overlord in motion, there was nothing much for Ike to do but wait nervously for H-hour. Had he indeed written a message to be broadcast in case of failure? Cronkite wondered. "Well, Walter, I must tell you something. I did," said Ike. The message had read: "The landing has been a failure and it's no one's fault but mine." Grinning at Cronkite, Ike shrugged. "If it did fail," he said, "I was going into oblivion anyway, so I might as well take full responsibility...
...went around to see several units of the 101st Airborne Division, and the paratroopers told him not to worry: they would button things up on arrival in France. As they took off, "I watched them out of sight," Ike told Cronkite, who asked if it were true that tears had been observed in his eyes. "It could have been possible," said Ike. "Goodness knows those fellows meant...