Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxes, urban renewal, planning and zoning convinced him that taxes do more than anything else to shape man's environment. "I'm more than upset," he says, "at how badly real estate taxes have been misused over the years. It's like peeling an onion-you take away layer after layer and uncover an interconnected nest of unintended social and economic evils. And federal taxes simply compound these evils...
...hangs in the Cabinet Room of the White House. The British-born painter who scorned showing his works in exhibitions or galleries died in 1966 at the age of 80. He was proudest of two accomplishments in his life: he was the man who convinced President Dwight Eisenhower to take up painting, and he himself painted the last portrait from life of Sir Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Other Stephens portraits now hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, in the Harry S Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library at Abilene, Kansas. This...
...decade. No civilian has ever spoken more often or with greater conviction about the need to end war. In 1961, retiring to his 200-acre farm near Gettysburg, Pa.?the first home that he and Mamie ever owned?he raised cattle and tended the land. "I wanted to take a piece of ground like this that had been sort of worn out through improper use and try to restore it," he said a few years ago. "I just said that when I die I'm going to leave a piece of ground better than I found...
Along with their piety, the Eisenhowers gave their sons the frontier creed of self-starting individualism. "Opportunity is all about you," they told them. "Reach out and take it. Do you want to go to school? Well, go!" Too old at 20 for Annapolis, his first choice, Ike qualified for West Point, where he reported in June 1911. Never an intellectual, he distinguished himself more as an athlete than as a scholar, graduating 61st in a class of 164. At his first post, Texas' Fort Sam Houston, Second Lieut. Eisenhower met Mamie Doud, a vivacious belle from Denver. They were...
...question has been answered, any more than it was a week ago." However, he later conveyed a different message to his House of Commons. Noting that the first ABM sites would not be operational until 1973, he said: "This gives us more than a few days or weeks to take our position." He was also impressed by Nixon's argument that a Canadian pullout from NATO would undermine the U.S. bargaining position with the Soviets and demoralize Western Europe...