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...microwave smile that warms another person without heat. His feeling for America is long and loving. Milton Eisenhower, the last of that remarkable cluster of Kansas boys, turned 80 the other day and wished he could sculpt a U.S. President out of proven parts. He would weld his brother Dwight's heart bone to Franklin Roosevelt's head bone. What a work of political art that might be, he chuckles...
...matched Dwight Eisenhower in his love of people and his belief in people," said Milton. "He possessed great honesty and he had no selfish pur pose. F.D.R. was a master at communicating with the people. They believed him. And then he possessed great optimism. The people learned to believe in themselves and they were able to overcome their troubles...
...Milton Eisenhower knows that the political environment is a lot more complicated today than it was 20 years ago. "The whole system of electoral government is on serious trial," he said. He worries particularly about the fact that we in the U.S. are making politics a life time career. The search for "electoral immortality," he calls it. "Those in Congress know the causes of inflation," he insisted, "but the solutions are unpopular politically. They vote for reelection, not what helps the nation...
...White House a President wastes half his time on trivia, Eisenhower estimates. He recalls his brother's being constantly interrupted by a tap on the Oval Office door followed by an invasion of the alfalfa growers or some such organization. Roosevelt once told Milton Eisenhower: "In this job you have a hundred responsibilities each day. You can redeem only four or five of them...
...Milton Eisenhower, diplomat and scholar, collected his wisdom from ser vice with eight Presidents. He wrote messages for Calvin Coolidge, was a global troubleshooter for Roosevelt and worked a bit for John Kennedy, long enough so that he came to believe J.F.K. would have been a great President if he had lived...