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...House Ways & Means Committee, "has become a house of horrors." The first step in tearing down that house is establishing a climate of public opinion in favor of the wrecking crew. Dedicated in his quest for a balanced budget and a debt reduction, reluctant to rock the fiscal boat, Ike was indifferent to tax reform-and thus never urged it, never recommended to Congress any proposals to remove the inequities in the nation's outdated, piecemeal tax legislation...
FOREIGN POLICY. Summing up the Eisenhower era, New York Timesman James Reston last week noted that "nothing has been settled, but nothing vital to the free world has been lost." The fact that nothing vital was lost is a good answer to most of Ike's critics, including Reston. Peace without retreat was indeed achieved and maintained by the Eisenhower Administration. But President Eisenhower failed to place his vast personal and political prestige behind a realistic effort to promote throughout the world the rule of law, which remains the best and most neglected chance for establishing the "peace with...
...Eisenhower during his two terms in office failed to recognize the vital importance of day-by-day politics in converting deeply felt governmental principle into reality. "The President," a White House aide once said, "hates and despises cheap political maneuvers." So he did-and so he should have. But Ike often carried his feelings so far as to remain above the political battles that are the fabric of positive governmental action. The Democratic comeback in Congress in 1954 and the Democratic landslide in the 1958 elections were among the results of his neglect of practical politics and working politicians...
...general, the nation's newspapers bade Ike a fond and sentimental farewell. "Dwight Eisenhower retires with the affection, respect and confidence of the nation and much of the world," said the Dallas Morning News. "No other man in universal history amassed so much influence or power at one time without taking the one more step: assumption of an imperial diadem or the trappings of dictatorship ... It behooves [President Kennedy] to remember, as we think he does, that neither the U.S. nor the rest of the world is through with Dwight Eisenhower." In Los Angeles, the Republican Times called...
...along with the pats on the back came a fair share of slaps. Hearst Columnist George E. Sokolsky, an off-and-on Ike fan, credited him with preserving the peace but complained about the bill: "One might almost say that his was a peace at any price. It was during his eight years that Soviet Russia achieved victory after victory and the U.S. took insult after insult." Columnist Joseph Alsop, who regards optimism as a character flaw, faulted Eisenhower for his complacency: "President Eisenhower, it is plain, is one of those men who prefer to deal with difficult problems...