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Stepping off the train in Stockholm, Dwight Eisenhower knew reporters would be asking him about his 1960 remarks blaming Sweden's high suicide rate, drunkenness, and lack of ambition on its social welfare state. Ike's first words were: "Before anybody gets a chance to ask, I want to make clear that the remark about Sweden was based on what I had read in an American magazine. Since then, I have−had many friends who have returned from Sweden and told me that I was wrong. I admit it and apologize for my error." Later, touring...
...Last fall Dwight Eisenhower led a band of Pennsylvania Republicans who urged Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., Ike's last and ablest Defense Secretary, to be their candidate for Governor or U.S. Senator this year. After agonizing over the decision, Tom Gates refused. Only a few months earlier, he had accepted a job as chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., whose assets of $5.2 billion make it the fifth largest U.S. bank, and he did not want to leave that job. Last week the full reason for Gates's decision became clear...
...first trip abroad as a private citizen. Cornered by a group of Danish newsmen in Copenhagen, he said he did not intend to be drawn into a discussion of U.S. politics, but when he was asked if he regretted any of his decisions during his two terms in office, Ike answered: "The worst mistake I made was in not working harder to elect the man I thought should be my successor...
When he was first elected to the Senate in 1948, he was a strong Truman supporter, and during the Eisenhower Administration just as strongly against Ike. But basically, his politics are neither right nor left but as bouncy as a pingpong ball. His heart pings mightily when it comes to preserving the 27½% oil depletion allowance, so dear to the pocketbooks of oilmen, and it ponged in support of the President's campaign to retain foreign aid to Poland and Yugoslavia. But he has crossed Jack Kennedy 6ften in recent months, and in fact, has voted pro-Kennedy...
...further charges of aggressiveness. He could not resist sticking an elbow into the American Medical Association for its opposition to medicare, but he ducked a question about Teddy in Massachusetts, shucked off an invitation to become involved in a public dispute with Dwight Eisenhower. Asked what he thought of Ike's remark that the Republicans were a businessman's party, he replied: "Well, I don't like disagreeing with President Eisenhower, so I won't in this case...