Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General Louis W. Truman, the new commandant of Washington's Fort Lewis, met for the first time, paired off as golfing partners in Tacoma, were calling each other "Edgar" and "Louie" by the time they stepped onto the first green. When Truman was asked about his relationship with the former president, he said: "We're cousins." Ike's brother could empathize. "In that case, Louie, I suppose you've got the same kind of problem I have." Said Truman: "I think yours is worse than mine...
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...
...even such differences of opinion are the exception in the comfortable personal and working relationship between Dwight and Milton Eisenhower. And out of that relationship has grown the feeling that once led Ike to introduce Milton as "a man of whom I've always been proud to say: 'My brother Milton...
...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 the dining-room table grew their lasting relationship...
...increase it. At the start of World War II, he was placed in charge of relocating West Coast Japanese in the U.S. interior, carried out a heartbreaking job with personal dignity. At Franklin Roosevelt's request, he undertook a monumental study of all Government information agencies and their relationship to national defense, helped frame the charter for the Office of War Information. And in 1943, even while continuing to serve as a top-level Government consultant, he answered another call: he returned to Kansas State as its president...