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...skilled veteran of four Republican Convention platform fights, Laird drove the committee hard in twice-weekly meetings. He solicited the views of top Republicans in and out of Congress, showed a 4,000-word draft to Dwight Eisenhower, accepted some of Ike's ideas verbatim, followed the ex-President's advice to cut the document to 2,500 words...
...fought an addition of 80 White House police, bitterly asked if they would be used to guard Caroline's ponies. He objected to President Eisenhower's being restored to five-star general's rank unless Congress agreed that Ike would get only his $25,000 annual presidential pension and not his $20,543 Army salary as well...
...some farmers who failed to cooperate. Wrote Washington's Republican Representative Catherine May to her constituents about the meeting: "He declared that if any of these proposed regimented programs became law he would be darned if he just wouldn't rather go to jail than to submit." Ike will not be jailed-the provision was dropped from the bill...
...bulls and bears grappled on Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange added a reassuring name to its board of governors-Dr. Milton Stover Eisenhower, 62. Ike's younger brother, president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, was named by Big Board President Keith Funston as the "prominent educator" that the 33-man board traditionally includes among its three public members. Past president of two other universities-Kansas State and Penn State-and veteran of a number of Government posts, including a special ambassadorship to Latin America, Milton Eisenhower also can claim financial accomplishments of his own. When...
...fact, political dolls seldom do what you want them to. You wind up the Ike doll and it does nothing for eight years. Before you wind up the Kennedy doll, sell all your securities. Then wind up the bull doll and it bears down...