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Tina Turner is too sick to sing. Anemia has sapped the strength she needs to sell her raw-meat music. She can't go on. She must go on; Ike is there, all silky unspoken threat, to see that she fulfills her obligation to the man who found her, nursed her to stardom, gave her her name. He only wants her to sing the hit he has written for her, A Fool in Love ("You can't understand/ Why he treats you like he do when he's such a good man"). So, as she stands mute and trembling...
...crusty Aiken came down from Putney, Vermont, determined to nudge his G.O.P. to the left. Immediately he confronted Ike-confidant Styles Bridges of New Hampshire. "No more middle of the road," Aiken declared, "when that is ! halfway between Grant and McKinley." Later he would counsel President Johnson on Vietnam: "Declare victory and leave...
John Kennedy of Massachusetts joined Republican Everett Dirksen of Illinois to help push Eisenhower's bill to loosen restrictions on foreign aid to communist nations. Johnson plunged in time and time again to help Ike, never more so than on the first civil rights bill, in l957. Georgia's Russell, in his last great stand for the Old South, softened the measure. But a bill of sorts was passed, the first fissure in a century of racism. L.B.J., wearing his silver-silk suit, which seemed to glow in the dim Senate corridors, knew what he was doing. So did Ike...
...Like Ike, But I Love Lucy...
...ike negotiates...