Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eulogies more than protocol. Richard Nixon, who emerged red-eyed from the hospital with his wife and daughter Tricia, praised his old mentor's "patriotism and statesmanship beyond party." Ike had at least lived to see his Republican protege in the White House, a long-held dream. Lyndon Johnson, who, while in office, consulted Eisenhower frequently, paid tribute to "this good man and noble leader." Once a bitterly outspoken foe, Harry Truman, now 84, remembered that before the two men were political opponents, they were "comrades in arms. And I cannot forget his services to his country and to Western...
...presidency was partly responsible for his party's loss in the 1954 congressional elections. Never again was he to have a Republican Congress. He conceived of the President's role as only one of a team running the country. For the last six years of Eisenhower's tenure, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn, the Democratic congressional leaders, helped to shape his domestic policy...
...Administration laid plans for the Bay of Pigs operation, leaving an enormous problem for its successor, it is unlikely that Ike, the meticulous technician, would have allowed the sloppy staff work that resulted in J.F.K.'s Cuban fiasco. And he would probably not have reacted as massively as Lyndon Johnson did in the Dominican Republic. By comparison, the U.S. intervention in Lebanon was refined and precise...
...beginnings of Viet Nam were clearly visible in the '50s, but Eisen hower seemed convinced that to fight a land war in Asia would be ruinous?though he later supported Johnson's policies. In retrospect, much of what was taken for clumsy bumbling was neither clumsy nor bumbling. "He knew when not to do something," says Political Scientist Harvey Wheeler, a fellow of California's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions...
...poll taken by Historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. in 1962, 75 prominent "students of American history" were asked to rate the Presidents. Eisenhower received a low "average" rating, ranking 22nd among the first 34, just above Andrew Johnson. Today he would probably receive a higher mark. The staff system he brought to the White House, for example?a target of ridicule in the late '50s and early '60s?is now seen as his valuable addition to the presidency. No President since World war II had been more resistant to the demands of the military than General Eisenhower. "We must guard...