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...articles in this month's Atlantic argued these points. Yale political scientist Paul Kennedy wrote an article suggesting that America's strategy and overseas commitments had overreached her resources. Then followed a piece by foreign affairs expert James Chase, entitled "Ike Was Right," arguing that we should withdraw our troops from West Germany and allow the Europeans to take care of themselves...
...Nixon later claimed), Whittier College, Duke University Law School, service as a naval officer in the backwash of the war in the Pacific, successful Republican campaign for Congress in 1946, Red hunting, Alger Hiss, the Senate in 1950 (after a bitter contest against "the pink lady," Helen Gahagan Douglas), Ike and the vice presidency in 1952. Ambrose's account of this progress throws a few details into intriguing relief. The young Nixon ("Gloomy Gus" to family and classmates) was regarded as emotionally pinched but unimpeachably honest. Old friends from Whittier could scarcely recognize the belligerent, deceptive figure who emerged during...
...constituents complained about throwing away more money in Europe, and he was a staunch enemy of segregation and a champion of civil rights. But life as Eisenhower's Vice President cramped Nixon as much as it exalted him. Ambrose, who has also written a two-volume biography of Ike, catches the tensions in this relationship perfectly: "After ordering Nixon to take the low road while he stayed on the high road, Eisenhower would admonish Nixon that he had gone too far -- and then once again order Nixon to go after the Democrats...
...power last Monday morning. A band of network heavyweights, including Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Diane Sawyer, showed up to support striking members of the Writers Guild, who walked out two weeks ago over issues of job security. The featured speaker, however, was a less well known correspondent named Ike Pappas, whose current celebrity derives from the fact that he has just lost his job. "I feel very poorly for the people who have to get up every morning and pretend to work for CBS News," he told the crowd. "It's not CBS News anymore...
...Ike Turner is pen-pals with Richard Nixon...