Word: ike
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...Ike himself was well over his peeve by the time he landed in Chicago to take his bows. Again, from hotel and office windows, the confetti poured down in torrents ("It's a different kind; it really sticks," he gasped. "It sticks and it chokes," replied Nixon), and Chicagoans as well as the Republican conventioneers tore loose in a huge, cacophonous reception that visibly left Ike bubbling. In the quiet of his suite, Ike and Mamie got together with the Nixons for a photo fest and a few informal greetings. (Pat Nixon, shaking Mamie's hand, said...
...neck, Dwight Eisenhower himself was burning up the wires. The one man who could destroy Nixon with a word was warning by phone that the use of words like "bold" and "new" in the defense plank of the platform would be "falling into a trap." The statements. Ike said, were the unmistakable handiwork of his own former speechwriter, Emmet Hughes, who had quit the White House staff in disillusionment with his role there and now was Rocky's policy adviser (TIME, June 20). By using Rocky-Hughes wording, said Ike to Nixon, "you are saying that...
Nixon went along with Rockefeller's proposals for two new high-level Government posts to "assist the President," something that Ike himself had suggested in one form or another...
Nixon, despite the fact that the convention has undeniably given him command over the Republicans, still has to remember that it was under the President's respectable wing that he flourished for nearly eight years. If he hopes to conserve the votes of those who know him as Ike's protege, he can hardly afford to take too many potshots at the bird. With visions of conservative affection for Taft-like politics dancing in his mind, he must ensure that the Old Guard will not find him indistinguishable from his powerful opponents and stay away from the polls...
...prep aration for the sterile rectangles of public housing. With the death of the slum, Goran makes an effort at redeeming his unsavory hero; it does not quite come off, compared to the snarling realism and cool, street-corner observation that shapes the rest of this story of Ike-o's growing up. The raucous garbage heap of Sobaski's Stairway has been scraped off like a scab by the welfare state, but in this novel its aroma of gamy decay still hangs heavy on the Pittsburgh...