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Because of the limit on representation allowances, top State Department professionals cannot accept such expensive key posts as London or Paris, which traditionally go to well-heeled amateurs. Multimillionaire Publisher John Hay Whitney, Ike's last Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, annually spent more than $100,000 above his $6,000 allowance. In four years in Rome, Paper King James D. Zellerbach spent $200,000 of his personal fortune for government party-giving. Even in lesser posts, Foreign Service careermen find it hard to get by. One minister-counselor in Paris asked to be relieved...
...major voting turnover was among Roman Catholics: where 49% went for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, only 22% supported Nixon in 1960. The G.O.P. held its own among Protestants: 63% voted for Ike and 62% for Nixon. Said the National Committee report: "A fair estimate would be that Kennedy received 6,000,000 more votes from Catholics than did Stevenson in 1956, out of a total increase of 8,000,000 in the Democratic presidential vote...
...Republicans lost ground with most voting "blocs": they went from 39% to 32% among Negroes, from 25% to 19% among Jews, from 43% to 35% among union members. They held on to a majority of the women's vote-but with just 51%, against Ike's 61%. Only the farmer remained staunchly Republican: Ike got 57.4% of the vote in farm counties and Nixon took...
...such a man. On the other hand, we must deplore the exaggeration and excesses which discredit even a good thing. Anyone who suggests that President Eisenhower promoted Communist causes is speaking in absurdities."¶U.S. Communist Chairman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 70, solemnly refuted Welch's charge that Ike was a "conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy"' "That's ridiculous, of course." The society, she added, is "so obviously capable of telling all kinds of falsehoods it seems impossible of making any impression on the American people." ¶Ohio's Democratic Senator Stephen M. Young declared that...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower insisted that he hadn't "a plan beyond this next stroke." But the lure of the pen soon proved mightier than the mashie, and the war chronicler-whose 1948 Crusade in Europe sold 1,500,000 copies and earned him $635,000-promised an updater. Ike's subject: "My eight years in the presidency and the lessons I believe can be drawn therefrom...