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Tempted by a standing job offer on the Abilene Daily Reflector, Milton was even more attracted by the promise of a teaching career from Kansas State President William Jardine, who had been vastly impressed by the scholarship of earnest, bespectacled Milton Eisenhower. Milton accepted Jardine's offer-but wound up with another job. A Republican Party fieldworker came to Kansas State to help Milton organize a campus political club, casually suggested that Milton apply for the consular service. Milton did; soon came a telegram offering him a consular post in Edinburgh. Milton uneasily approached Jardine for an honorable exit...
Dovetailed Minds. That began Milton Eisenhower's long career in government. Within two years, after due service in Edinburgh, Milton was in Washington as assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, whom President Coolidge named to his Cabinet in 1925. And shortly after that, along came big brother Ike, then an obscure Army major called to Washington to write a guidebook for the American Battle Monuments Commission...
...sight of his kid brother attending White House teas and moving knowledgeably about Washington was a revelation. Milton's home on 24th Street and Massachusetts Avenue was only a short walk from the Wyoming Apartments where Ike and Mamie lived. The brothers fell into the habit of spending evenings together at Milton's dining-room table, locking heads, thoughts and aspirations. They discovered a remarkable community of interests. "We were not only intimate," says Milton, "but we found that we liked to talk over our problems together." Ike has since added: "Our thought processes dovetailed very closely." Over...
Dwight and Milton Eisenhower kept in close touch with each other even as their jobs drew them physically apart. Dwight moved through the Army's glacially slow peacetime promotion list, then burst to five-star status in World War II. Milton moved steadily up the government promotion list, became one of the most highly regarded officials in Washington. Under Henry Wallace, he restored order to a chaotic land-use program that at one point urged some farmers to reduce their cotton acreage, urged others to increase it. At the start of World War II, he was placed in charge...
...Which One Do You Mean?" By war's end Milton Eisenhower had achieved all the recognition he needed. At an Abilene family reunion, with General Ike just returned from his crusade in Europe, a reporter asked Ida Eisenhower how it felt to have her famous son at home. Her sharp reply: "Which one do you mean...