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...what he wanted most to be remembered for in office changed subtly in his 7½ years as President. He ended the Korean war; he prided himself in taking some of the acrimony of partisanship out of the U.S.atmosphere; and fiscal economy was always in his mind. But increasingly, Ike envisioned himself as engaged in one overriding personal mission, to bring a "just and lasting peace." He ran for reelection, he told friends, because "I want to advance our chances for world peace, if only by a little, maybe only a few feet." He told a press conference...
...which Ike had reason to regard as characteristically Russian. In the days just after World War II, Ike recounts in his autobiography, Russia's Marshal Georgy Zhukov confided to him that the Soviets had discovered an unbeatable technique for clearing German minefields: just send a company of infantry through the mined area...
...generous portions of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, along with occasional tastes of the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune. But at the President's press conference last week. Pat Munroe of Chicago's American asked Ike himself about his newspaper-reading habits...
...market got a healthy boost from President Eisenhower's press-conference "good news" about the U.S. economy. Ike made one announcement that everyone had long expected: final figures for the gross national product during the first quarter were above earlier estimates. The value of goods and services produced in the U.S. had nudged over the magic half-trillion-dollar mark, was running at the rate of $502 billion a year...
Biggest Increase. Ike also announced that in the month ending in mid-April, employment rose substantially more than usual for "the biggest April increase by far in the postwar period." The 1,900,000 who found jobs boosted total employment to 66.2 million, and unemployment was down 546,000 to 3,660,000. The big improvement reflected a recovery from the bad weather of March, but unemployment figures remain a real worry...