Word: milton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's personal emissary to Latin America in 1953 and again this summer, Milton Eisenhower has become an expert in hemispheric relations, urged U.S. programs to help Latin America help itself...
...veteran Washington hand, Milton is a member of the President's keystone Advisory Committee on Government Reorganization. Even before Russia's Sputnik spun into the sky last October, Milton and Ike were deep in talks leading toward the Pentagon reorganization that passed into law this summer...
...standard, Milton Eisenhower is well qualified for his role. Eisenhower, Milton Stover, takes up 52 lines of Who's Who, compared to 19 for Eisenhower, Dwight David. President in his time of three schools-Kansas State College, Pennsylvania State and Johns Hopkins Universities-he has also served five Presidents of the U.S.: as Agriculture Department careerman under Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, as wartime troubleshooter for F.D.R., as labor-dispute fact finder and Government reorganizer for Harry Truman, and as Ike's most trusted, trustworthy helper...
...despite his credentials, Milton's place in the Eisenhower Administration has been noisily misunderstood. Milton, cried Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, was "the real President of the U.S." Even Edgar Eisenhower, eldest of the four surviving Eisenhower brothers, has accused Milton of dragging Dwight down the primrose path of overliberalism...
Such charges miss the mark by miles, entailing basic mistakes about Milton Eisenhower as a man and about his relationship with Ike. Shy, extremely sensitive to criticism, Milton is no man to wear his private character on his public sleeve. The man behind the maroon cover of Who's Who is no heavy-footed bureaucrat ; he plays his part in the Government with the same soft touch that he uses on the pedals of the Hammond organ in his Johns Hopkins residence-in stocking feet. Far from being a doctrinaire ax grinder, he bends over backward to present objective...