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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Give me a man who has the courage of his convictions no matter how they are expressed-and I mean Mr. Eisenhower...
...work with the Eisenhower Republicans who are fighting for his program, Ike left his hard-pressed Capitol Hill defenders sadly disappointed: "I don't see how it is possible for any President to work with . . . the whole Republican group except through their elected leadership. This doesn't mean that in special cases and for special purposes you don't." Did he intend to "punish" the leaders who are attacking his program and "reward" those who support it? Snapped Ike: "I don't think it is the function of the President of the U.S. to punish anybody...
...more serious" at the U.N. disarmament talks in London gives ground for guarded optimism. Among the reasons for the different tone: the Soviets, "as well as all the rest of the world, are feeling the pinch" of maintaining "these tremendous military organizations." However, warned Ike, "this doesn't mean that they are not . . . going to want just as big an advantage out of [arms reduction] as they...
...with deadly seriousness, spent sleepless nights after his heroes were attacked, blazingly denounced Jeff's enemies to audiences of two or three farmboys. Even Ike McClellan says: "I should have held off until John was a little older and could understand that our opponents didn't really mean what they said...
...limb. The Lamont Dupont feat, handled with some sprightliness by Life, was ground to a fine, dry powder, and in only a few sentences at that. This, however, is only the most notorious example of the book's sterility. For the editors of 321 there seemed to be no mean between the matter-of-fact and outlandish gaucherie. Perhaps the only attempt at literary imagination had to do with the Radcliffe girl. It was apparently a parody of stream-of-consciousness writing and involved the endless repetition of the phrase "faces in the crowd...