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...callow youth." Foreign crises like Korea, he said, were met "headon with firmness, and they were solved." Guatemala was rescued from Communist domination. Wages, income and the gross national product went up; the rate of increase in the cost of living went down. "If this is not moving," said Ike dryly, "it is a reasonable facsimile thereof...
...Ike was plainly pleased by his campaigning. On his way back East, he stopped off in Omaha to pay tribute to Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior in his Cabinet and now candidate for Governor of Nebraska in an increasingly close race with Democratic Incumbent Frank Morrison. What Kennedy needs in Congress, said Ike. is "a darned good influx of Republicans." What Nebraska needs, he added, is Fred Seaton as Governor-"the kind of Governor who will repel this assault on the rights of state and local government...
...Four-Letter Word. Scranton thus got an invitation from Ike to talk politics at the former President's Gettysburg farm. Scranton knew what was in the wind. But by now he had fallen in love with his House job, had no ambitions about the governorship. Scranton listened politely to Ike, but kept shaking his head. Finally, just as Scranton was about to leave, Ike unleashed a cruncher. "Bill," he said, "this all comes down to a four-letter word-duty...
That four-letter word kept echoing in Scranton's ears. The regular Republican organization went right ahead and backed a colorless party trooper for Governor. Ike was furious. He was quoted as calling it "a miserable ticket," a "goddam rotten setup." By now, the pressure was really on Scranton. He finally agreed to run for Governor-but only on the incredible condition that all 67 of the state's brawling county chairmen endorse him. To his vast surprise, they...
...troops he assembled a large fleet of Jeeps, tanks and halftracks, plus an impressive personal navy of assorted landing craft. Suddenly Darryl the Great, as his minions know him, was the ninth strongest military power in the world. Zanuck himself modestly admits: "My job was even tougher than Ike's. He had the men and he had the equipment. I had to find both...