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...four months since he left the White House, Dwight Eisenhower. has kept his opinions to himself. But last week Ike returned to Washington and,"to the unconcealed delight of 5,000 fund-raising Republicans, broke his silence with a fiery attack on the Kennedy Administration's domestic policies. It was, in fact, one of the most politically outspoken speeches of Ike's career...
...Ike was emphatically riled at the New Frontier's domestic program: "No one can stand, simultaneously, for more individualism and more centralized Government. The proposals now flowing in such abundance to the Congress can lead to nothing but greater centralization. We Republicans take our stand for the individual . . . We consider it sheer arrogance to believe that people in Government know better for the people than they know for themselves . . . We are against the insulting concept of Government by Big Brother. Excessive public housing, rampant public power, federalized youth programs are cases in point...
...there had been a place to hide," said Five-Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 70, after he reviewed 2,500 West Point cadets and heard a citation honoring him, "I would have gone off and bawled like a baby." But Ike stood smartly at attention for 30 minutes, doffed his grey fedora as plumed battalion commanders saluted him with sabers. Later the old grad (class of '15), who made a cadet career of breaking as many Academy rules as he dared, became the fourth man to win the Sylvanus Thayer Medal* (named for a 19th century superintendent known...
Dwight Eisenhower's farewell presidential gift to the nation was the promise of a surplus for fiscal 1961. Reviewing Ike's tote sheet after his own inauguration, John Kennedy quickly concluded that the Eisenhower black ink was unrealistic...
...Democratic gamble was known to everyone in Washington: time and again since 1955 the Democrats had rebuffed Dwight Eisenhower's pleas to create more federal judgeships and thus ease the burden on the U.S.'s courts. Last year, the Democrats even turned back Ike's offer to split his appointments 50-50 between both parties if Congress would only approve 40 new judgeships. Last week, with a Democratic President in the White House, the Democrats created not 40 but 70 new judgeships. Manny Celler explained why: "We did not like putting Democratic eggs under a Republican...