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...currently writing his senior thesis on the first African-American to serve in the executive office of the White House—E. Frederic Morrow. Murrow was Dwight D. Eisenhower??s administrative officer for special projects...
...Eisenhower??s aurea mediocritas is one based in extensive experience and borne out by history: Hawkish nations eventually learn measure and modesty just as—rather sadly—pacific nations eventually learn war, or are taught it. Would that it were so on our Cantabrigian subcontinent. Here, Ike’s harmony never establishes itself—that is, we skew forever toward truculence, or hubris...
...past year, however, Eisenhower??s national prestige has sunk appreciably due both to his “lame-duck” presidency and to decreased activity since his November stroke. At the same time the Administration has been buffeted by the strongest criticism of its five years over questions of national defense and the current economic recession...
...thorough, endearing, but somewhat glossy story in “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography.” Because the “Peanuts” comics hold such a dear place in the hearts of readers and such a central place in the existentialist popular culture of Eisenhower??s America, Michaelis runs the risk of exposing too much about the creator and his underlying insecurities, fears, and shortcomings. People, after all, are usually not interested in seeing the puppeteer’s face when they watch a puppet show. Unfortunately, though Michaelis does not wear the tread...
...window on national politics as a newsman on WHRB, the student-run radio station. I interviewed Eisenhower??s press secretary and the chief assistant to Senator John F. Kennedy ’40, and eventually Kennedy himself, first in West Virginia during the 1960 primary and then during his post-election visit for a Board of Overseers meeting. But although I came from a progressive family, I was not political, and it never occurred to me in 1956 or 1960 that I should—or that I, as an individual student, could—do anything directly...