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...loyalty, because loyalty incorporates a sense of history. At the same time, loyalty, which is often as blind as love and justice, can also be dangerous. Harry Truman stood by his fellow Missourian, Harry Vaughan, a shady military aide who consorted with influence peddlers throughout Truman's Administration. Ike had his Sherman Adams, Carter his Lance. "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss," Dean Acheson told reporters in January 1950, citing as his precedent Matthew...
...take off, hit the road again as if there were no gas crisis or recession or cold war? Or are we supposed to watch Neal and Jack--and their lover, Carolyn--with that gooey, suicidal depression that tells us we missed it, the glory days of the fifties: Ike on the tee, Steve Allen on the TV, and a nation of ostriches dressing up in goatees, dark glasses and filthy poetry...
...began in 1953 on the third floor of the Executive Office Building across the street from the White House and for the most part out of sight and sound of the President. The first National Security Adviser was a kind of aide-de-camp to Ike, more clerk than policy planner. But the next thing we knew, he had moved across the street and was in the White House basement, close to the President's communications center, a lope or two from John Kennedy's ear. When we woke up a few months after Nixon's Inaugural...
...says he deliberately misleads the press, or confesses to repeating himself constantly to avoid the risk of saying something new. But candid admissions of such practices by their predecessors are beginning to turn up in the history books. Remember Eisenhower's contorted syntax in press conferences? Jim Hagerty, Ike's press secretary, was worried about what the President might say about the 1955 Quemoy-Matsu crisis, but Ike reassured him: "Don't worry, Jim, if that question comes up, I'll just confuse them...
...Eisenhowers were inseparable until Ike was named Supreme Allied Commander and went to England to direct the invasion of Europe. He allegedly had a brief romance with the WAC who served as his driver, but after the war he was reunited with Mamie. When Ike finished his second term, the couple retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pa., near the battlefield. After Ike's death in 1969, Mamie withdrew even further from the public eye. Asked last summer how she would like to be remembered by Americans, Mamie replied, as "just a good friend...