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...Nebraskans were quick to retort. "Nebraska has some of the finest schools in the nation," said State Education Commissioner Freeman Decker. Sorensen's speech was "the most disparaging, untrue statement that I've ever heard," said Mrs. Fred Walker, chairman of the education committee of the Omaha chapter of the American Association of University Women. "It's extremely bad for a Nebraskan to come into his own state, without figures and statistics, to make such a statement...
...running for Governor in 1891: "We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money" (what he meant was the sacredness of the gold standard). Sitting out the first presidential campaign (on his front porch in Canton, Ohio) against Bryan in 1896, he must have been shocked by the Nebraskan's notion that mankind was being "crucified on a cross of gold." The voters agreed with McKinley, and Author Leech emphasizes what is really at the heart of the McKinley story: this hymn-loving, humanity-loving man of the people was as much the favorite of the wage earners...
...foes of Douglas McKay are due for a disappointment if they really expect any basic change in Interior Department policy. Appointee Seaton announced: "I certainly expect to carry out the Eisenhower-McKay power policy." He asked Davis, a fellow Nebraskan of somewhat more conservative leanings, to stay on as Under Secretary. Although Davis had been a leading candidate for the secretaryship (with 14 Western G.O.P. Senators and a solid phalanx of top Nebraska Republicans behind him), he agreed to stay on and his supporters accepted the situation without public protest...
Through fellow Nebraskan General Alfred Gruenther, Seaton met Dwight Eisenhower in France in 1952, later became a key strategist on Ike's campaign team. In September 1953 the President called Seaton to Washington to straighten out Defense Secretary Charles Wilson's troubles with Congress and the press. As Assistant Secretary of Defense for legislative and public affairs, he played an effective behind-the-scenes role in the Army's 1954 wrestle with Joe McCarthy. Last year he was drafted into the White House as a key presidential assistant, became a troubleshooter and adviser, not only on politics...
Turning Points In History. For a while CBS radio advertised the show with modest pride as "our 69th most popular program." The show has never sought and never had a sponsor. Moderator Bryson, a florid, white-thatched Nebraskan, is the animator of the show and knows how to keep the talk lively and the air from going dead. "The goal of the program," he says, "is to get a wider and wider public to read those books out of the history of the world mind which are readable, and also to discuss books that are turning points in history which...