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...them, hence his proposal for an international agency to guide peaceful development of atomic energy ("atoms for peace") and a scheme to open the U.S. and Soviet Union to mutual military surveillance ("open skies"). "I'm tired of dealing with mature men already set in their prejudices," protested Ike, who was then...
...public sense of his stubbornness could persist, that he could yet lose the opportunities in defense and budget matters. True, what some perceive as cast-iron prejudice may be wily calculation, designed to pressure Congress into creative response. But a key question remains: Does Reagan have the attribute that Ike's onetime aide Sherman Adams thought most crucial? "I believe," said Adams, "that a President should above all understand his own prejudices...
...reporter. Out in the countryside, ABC and NBC vans in search of the elusive Cuban bogged down in the mud, and a Salvadoran peasant collected two crisp 100 colones notes ($80) to haul the vans out with a team of oxen-while a network cameraman captured the action. When Ike Seamans of NBC approached the San Vicente garrison, the soldier on duty wouldn't even let him speak. "The lieutenant is asleep and the Cuban is dead," said the soldier...
DIED. Malcolm Moos, 65, versatile scholar and political scientist who, as President Dwight Eisenhower's chief speechwriter, helped to coin the expression "militaryindustrial complex" in Ike's farewell address; of an apparent heart attack; at Ten Mile Lake, Minn. A prolific author (Politics, Presidents and Coattails and The Republicans: A History of the Party), Moos served as president of the University of Minnesota during the 1960s...
...wonder if the success of the transaction, the apparent (if usually silent) satisfaction of the consumers, does not suggest a widespread desire for this culture of agreement. That assumption is substantial and sadly pessimistic. But it is hard to believe that human nature changed when the slogan "I Like Ike" appeared. More likely, technology's ability to pump a steady stream of "comfort" into every home rocketed. If that is the case, maybe Johnny Carson and People provide an opiate for the masses which masses don't wholly despise...