Word: ikemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little chance to question top Government men if the presentation does not answer their questions or explain the policies satisfactorily. Complains New York Times Correspondent Bill Lawrence: "There's too much B.B.D. & O." Trying to reach sources directly to get the answers has posed another problem. Top Ikemen have generally become available to bureau chiefs, columnists and publishers, but newsmen covering routine beats are often left with little more than handouts. "I can get to see Brownell pretty readily," explains one Washington bureau chief, "but my beat man at Justice has a bad time even reaching...
...Ikemen still lead relatively sheltered and protected lives, their too great reliance on packaged press relations has often failed to make clear exactly what Administration policies mean. Until the Administration speaks with a clearer, franker voice and reporters go after their stories unhampered by second-guessing their publishers or their readers, Washington coverage will not be what it should...
...home folks, and adept at political infighting. Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, the man who nominated Eisenhower at Chicago, was a seaboard internationalist; Colorado's popular Dan Thornton was a western conservative. Together they reppresented the limits of the Eisenhower faith, but both were enthusiastic Ikemen and both could be counted on to spread the word...
What to Do? While Democrats sat back and chuckled at the furor, Dwight Eisenhower aides searched for a solution. There was no indication that the Ikemen had foreseen the trouble. Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall thought it might be all right if Wilson would agree to disqualify himself on all defense-G.M. dealings. Ohio's Senator Robert Taft suggested that Congress might quickly change the law to fit Wilson's case, but he added somewhat sharply that offering a solution is "their problem," i.e., the problem of Dwight Eisenhower and his close advisers. The problem extends below...
...thought that Durkin would give the Cabinet balance and implement the campaign promise that his administration would be "fair" to labor. The appointment was a characteristic Eisenhower effort to unify all the forces in his theater of operation. At the same time, it was a further demonstration that Ikemen felt no need to clear everything with...