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...Thing of the Past." Many press accounts managed to read into Ike's observation an endorsement of Nixon for next year's nomination. It was, of course, a mere political truism-and no one knew it better than Nixon himself. To be sure, he said, if there was a Republican deadlock, his name would come up. But, he insisted, in practical political terms, "deadlocks are a thing of the past...
When he actually found himself campaigning nine years later, Ike says he tried to avoid Republican embarrassment over the noisy Senator Joseph McCarthy by asking that his campaign train bypass Wisconsin. Ike felt an added personal embarrassment: high among McCarthy's list of "traitors" was Ike's old boss and longtime friend, General George C. Marshall. But the campaign managers routed him into the state anyway and sat him on a platform with McCarthy himself. Why did Ike drop from his speech a tribute to Marshall? The professional politicians pointed out that he had already defended Marshall...
Eisenhower reports that he had no knowledge of the phone call Thomas E. Dewey made to Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon before Nixon's famed "Checkers" broadcast defending the "secret fund" raised for him by California businessmen. Dewey urged that Nixon resign, and Ike admits that "the young Senator" feared that Dewey was speaking...
...high point in the campaign was Ike's pledge to visit Korea immediately if he was elected-a suggestion often credited to Journalist Emmet John Hughes, then a speechwriter on his staff, later author of a book bitterly attacking Eisenhower and his policies. Author Eisenhower, however, mentions Hughes not at all in this connection. Several groups were batting the idea around at the time, says Ike, and he gives most of the credit to Adviser C. D. Jackson. Hughes he later dismisses as "a writer with a talent for phrase-making." Ike takes due note of his own famed...
...that the U.S. intended to drop the atom bomb on Japan. He thought it was a mistake on the ground that Japan was already defeated and "that our country should avoid shocking world opinion." Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told him of the plans on a visit to Ike's headquarters in 1945. "During his recitation of the relevant facts," writes Ike, "I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings . . . The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude, almost angrily refuting the reasons I gave for my quick...