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...away with it? As it turned out, the answer was no. By calling himself an adoring diminutive, Mr. Carter preempted any possible public urge to do the same. In our own good time we might have come to call him Jimmy, just as we called others before him Ike, Jack and Jerry. But since Mr. Carter took Jimmy for himself, he left no room for any spontaneous objective expression of affection. What followed was disaffection. Two years into the presidency, people not only were not calling him Jimmy, they were calling him Carter, almost always with a hard edge...
...House staff belongs in the lower echelons. More important than anything else is whether Reagan and his people have enough confidence and humility to shift the great media spotlight from the front lawn of the White House to the offices of the Cabinet Secretaries. There were actually days in Ike's time when Press Secretary Jim Hagerty would open and close the daily briefings by saying: "There is nothing here today." Pentagon news most often came from the Pentagon. Developments in Agriculture were announced by the Secretary of Agriculture...
...hand. Today voting America will decide whether its faith in the likeable personality is not after all stronger than its faith in conscious leadership. For this is how the campaign has shaped up. On the one hand, there has been good old Ike, with beaming countenance and sincere reassurance. On the other hand, there has been Adlai, looking not quite so All-American, but better-informed and offering a few comprehensive plans for a New America and a chaotic world...
True, the raffish-brother act has had its more edifying counterpart. Milton Eisenhower, the brains of the family according to Ike, enjoyed a sort of unappointed super-Cabinet status during the '50s. John Kennedy formalized the fraternal arrangement by making Bobby Kennedy Attorney General...
...smiled cynically when Ike introduced his kid brother as "a man of whom I've always been proud to say: 'My brother Milton'." Jack Kennedy maintained an even closer relationship with his brother Bobby, and, though the two had fiercely clashing personalities, they got on famously. Familial embarrassment was noticeably absent at Camelot, despite the rumors of swimming pool orgies and Mafia links that crept through the tight Kennedy ring of privacy...