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...When Dwight Eisenhower's political star began to rise, Lodge, like Nixon, was one of the first to spot it. He journeyed to Paris in 1951 and tried to persuade his friend (they first met in the Louisiana maneuvers in 1941) to run for the G.O.P. nomination. After Ike agreed to run, Lodge worked hard managing the difficult, pre-convention campaign until, because of his incautious arrogance, he was replaced by Sherman Adams. This same snootiness, plus a neglect of his home ground, caused him that same year to lose his Senate seat to a persuasive upstart named Jack...
Responsible Lieutenants. In their roles as Vice President and U.N. ambassador, Nixon and Lodge might easily have slipped into the ceremonial obscurity that traditionally surrounded both posts. But Ike had other ideas about the jobs-and the men. As Vice President, Dick Nixon was privy to the top secrets of the National Security Council, a regular at Cabinet meetings and a frequent globe-trotting representative of the presidency in the far corners of the earth. As the U.S. cotter pin in the United Nations, Lodge was given Cabinet status and a large voice in U.S. policy-and grew in stature...
...Lodge battled endlessly with a series of Soviet adversaries ("I've heard them all," he once remarked. "I can only conclude that the man who writes the speeches is still the same"). While Nixon took on special presidential commissions and presided over the Cabinet in the days of Ike's illnesses. Lodge carefully steered the U.S. and the West through U.N. world tempests from Indo-China to Budapest to Suez. Nixon's tough, unflinching "kitchen conference" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow last summer was matched by Lodge's assignment as Khrushchev's official companion during...
...because the new U.S. aid program coincided so transparently with the U.S. need to counter Cuba's and-Yankee campaign, Latin American skeptics call it "the Castro plan." Ike recently sent a personal note to Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek concerning the September meeting in Bogota of the "Committee of 21," a committee dreamed up by Kubitschek to guide the hemisphere's economic growth and win U.S. aid. Kubitschek thought the letter would amplify Ike's promise of U.S. loans for social ends, such as housing and land reform. Instead, Eisenhower merely hoped in general for "concrete results...
...extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When Vice President Nixon arrived at O'Hare International Airport, a Jeep-borne camera broke through the crowd; when President Eisenhower landed, a cagey CBS reporter persuaded Chicago Manufacturer William Rentschler, chairman of "Thank You Ike Day," to wear a microphone under his tie, and CBS picked up the words of Ike's greeting to the welcoming committee ("I know this must be taking a lot of time and effort...