Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having suffered through the woolly-headed schemes of the New Deal Agriculture Department (he twice submitted his resignation to Henry Wallace, twice got talked out of leaving), Milton Eisenhower agrees with Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's stand against high, rigid, surplus-producing farm subsidies, has defended Benson against his critics. But not in the White House. "This," he has told the President, "is one thing on which I have definite opinions and strong views. I shouldn't be talking about the job of your Agriculture Secretary...
...such striving for objectivity that Milton Eisenhower is most valuable to his brother. "The President," he says, "has vast machinery to get evidence on public problems. But in this lonely job it is good for him to have someone who is a good listener and a sympathetic friend who can serve as a sounding board." By mutual consent, his role as friend and sounding board is not a matter for tabloid parade. "We have an understanding," President Eisenhower has told friends, "that we will keep each other's confidences...
Furled Sleeves in the Bedroom. Operating under that agreement, Milton Eisenhower moves constantly in and out of the White House. Last week, ready to accompany Ike to a Washington dinner, Milton wheeled his black, air-conditioned Imperial sedan into the White House driveway. Once or twice a week, he makes the 45-minute drive from Johns Hopkins to Washington. Often he stays overnight, and the Upstairs Red Room (so called to distinguish it from the main-floor parlor known as the Red Room) is generally kept ready for him. In the privacy of the presidential bedroom, the brothers can unbend...
...conversations run the whole range of policy problems and mutual personal interests. Both are ardent anglers, and Milton, who trolls for walleyed pike in Wisconsin's Land O'Lakes district, gives away no points to Ike. "I am every bit as good a fisherman," he says firmly, "as my brother." Both are ferociously intense painters, Ike in oil and Milton in painstaking watercolors. Before a slipped disk took him off the fairways, Milton shot an unorthodox but Ike-worthy game of golf (high 80s). Now and then the brothers get together with friends for an evening of bridge...
...their policy talks, neither Eisenhower is yes man to the other-although Milton would hardly dream of disputing a presidential decision, once made. The President thoroughly respects Milton's experience and skill, but far from blindly. Once, when Milton was uninhibitedly polishing a presidential speech, Ike took one look and said, gently but firmly: "That's fine. But it's not what I want to say." Again, Milton strongly objected to a pork-barreling rider attached by Congress to the $32 billion defense-appropriations bill in 1955. As a matter of constitutional principle, he advised...