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...stance. "He is a deeply spiritual person, not bureaucratic," says McMurrin. "He has suffered through this problem for 30 years." What if Kimball had not received the revelation during his tenure? Under the strict seniority system among Apostles, the next president in line is Ezra Taft Benson, 78, Ike's Agriculture Secretary. After him would come Mark E. Petersen, 77, former editor of the church-owned daily, Salt Lake's Deseret News. Both are considered much too conservative to have acted as Kimball did in lifting the barrier for blacks...
What I find most authentic today in the notes I typed after that lunch was the spontaneous sound of the Republican voice 25 years ago. Ike could have had the 1952 nomination, I now know, on the ticket of either party. But I find my notes picking up his theme-a theme which then sounded fresh to me, but now, on the larynxes of Republican orators, sounds as old-fashioned as a lament from the Prophets. Ike was closing the lunch with his credo...
...people have the right to know what I stand for," Ike began. His ideas were clear: this business of centralism in government. There was too much of the bureaucracy, too much looking to Washington. He wanted to get the federal government organized so it did not wipe out the states and the municipalities and the communities. He didn't want to have people looking to Washington for everything. The problem was that the federal government was "taking so much money from everyone it left no resources for local government to run its educational apparatus. That was the problem...
...Ike rose at lunch's end, we all rose. We knew we had a candidate...
Back in the U.S. after 15 nomadic years, White watched the growing flow of power to Washington that Ike had condemned but could not, even as President, manage to stem. Not until the campaign for the 1960 presidential election was under way did White begin work on the series of books that was to bring him his greatest renown. The morning after Election Day, White waited in suspense at the Hyannis Armory on Cape Cod to see whether Illinois would give John F. Kennedy or Richard M. Nixon the title role in The Making of the President...