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...Ike starting May 3, ABC, 9p.m., E.D.T...
...than pure, ABC is devoting six costly hours of prime time to the debate of an absurdly narrow historical question: Did General Dwight D. Eisenhower have a wartime affair with his British aide Kay Summersby, or didn't he? According to Summersby's posthumous memoir, she and Ike stole a few kisses but struck out in two attempts at lovemaking. According to the general's heirs, Ike never dreamed of cheating on Mamie. Poor ABC does not know what to think. The mini-series Ike raises the question of its hero's infidelity at every turn...
...Ike sounds like a sleazy enterprise, have no fear. Sleaziness has never stood in the way of fun on television. Ike is the show that NBC's Backstairs at the White House so desperately wanted to be: a trashy romp through famous events, laced with unprovable innuendo and raucous caricatures of public figures. As history, Ike is a waste of time, but as a time waster, it more than fills the bill...
...parties were forced to consider potential nominees who had challenged the old-line bosses by going over their heads and reaching the public through the channels of journalism. The Democrats stopped Estes Kefauver, but the G.O.P. accepted Dwight Eisenhower. In the end, it mattered less to the delegates that Ike was only a nominal Republican than that he was a genuine war hero with a dazzling, telegenic grin. His running mate, almost incidentally, was a young Californian named Richard Nixon, whose seats in the House and Senate had been won with the help of the Los Angeles Times...
...rare Republican "ethnic" in the mid-'50s, Sirica caught the eye of such powerful politicians as Leonard Hall and William Rogers. They cleared the way for him to become a federal district judge in April of 1957, after he had campaigned twice for Ike and Nixon. Sixteen years later, he glowered down at the likes of G. Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, and James McCord, who in March of 1973 appeared in Sirica's chambers with his famous letter of accusation...