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Considering the actions he has taken, Carter's public-approval rating of 72% is impressive, but not spectacular. At about the same time in their presidential days, J.F.K.'s stood at 83%, Ike's at 74%, L.BJ...
Indeed, there are knowledgeable men around Washington who say the best presidential practitioners in foreign policy were Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Ike learned power commanding the Allied forces in Europe. Nixon studied the world and its leaders during his 16 years of global wanderings as the Vice President and a lawyer...
...energy policy yet, and not a single unemployed person has been put back to work through Carter's programs. Gallup's experts figure Carter's 71% approval has to do with how and what Jimmy says and that sweater he wears. "It is kind of like Ike," says a Gallup man, suggesting that Jimmy may become a folk hero in his own special...
...Eisenhower once observed that appointing Earl Warren Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was "the biggest damn fool thing I ever did." In The Memoirs of Earl Warren, to be published in June by Doubleday, the late Chief Justice spells out some details of his strained relationship with Ike. The former President, he writes, thought the Warren court was too soft on Communists. "What would you do with Communists in America?" the Chief Justice asked Eisenhower. His reply: "I would kill the s.o.b.'s." Nor did Eisenhower agree with the court's decision on school desegregation...
...Ike Thomas '80 said he believes in the romantic aspects of the day. Buying candy for his girlfriend, he said, "We got back together today and this is a special way of showing my love...