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...Since the emphasis in the Special Forces is on organizing and teaching partisans-so that they in turn might fan out and pyramid their own numbersthe men are chosen for their high intelligence and maturity as well as for their physical courage. "This is no place," says Group Commander Ike Edwards, "for the hot-blooded hero type." All Special Forces recruits must have at least a year's prior military service, must be qualified paratroopers; unlike conventional paratroopers, they make all their training jumps by night. Their 38-week training course is a killing tenure of unrelieved work...
What does Dwight Eisenhower think of the Kennedy Administration? After an hour-long chat with the ex-President at his Palm Springs retreat, South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt thought he had the answer. Ike had criticized the new Administration, Mundt reported in his weekly newsletter to constituents, as "too much left of center; too partisan; too slanted toward programs supported by union bossism." The Mundt report produced a thunderclap from Palm Springs. Said Eisenhower: "Senator Mundt's statement . . . does not accurately describe my views on public affairs . . . and I very much regret its issuance. The Senator evidently...
...scattered over 115 campuses. Awards for activity in the conservative cause were handed out to an array of conservative celebrities, ranging from Editor William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review) to Wisconsin Industrialist Herbert Kohler (of Kohler). When a speaker mentioned Herbert Hoover's name, the audience roared; Ike's name got polite applause mixed with boos; Harry Truman, silence. But the lion of the evening-as he invariably is whenever conservatives gather-was Arizona's handsome, articulate junior Senator, Barry Goldwater...
Kennedy's score edged Dwight Eisenhower's 68% approval after his first 30 days in office. In his years as President, Ike's popularity fever chart ranged from 79% to 49%, Harry Truman's from 87% to 23% and Franklin Roosevelt's from...
...Levers. It was no mean achievement to educate a democracy to the need for economic restraint, and Ike's short course came at a time when the realities of international competition and the gold drain would have made spiraling inflation a calamity. Ike's stress on community and individual responsibility, while it may have left some things undone, provided a reversal of a philosophy of centralization that had gone unbroken for a generation...