Independent voices from the TWT Communities
After leaving the White House in 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower fretted about what future generations would think of his legacy, stating that the peace and prosperity that marked his two terms "didn't just happen, by God." But as Evan Thomas writes in his study of the Eisenhower presidency, "[Ike] had trouble articulating just how that had happened. He never could admit that he had kept the peace by threatening all-out war. His all-or-nothing strategy worked brilliantly."
Old friend and columnist Joseph Alsop once told me of arriving in China with a clanking sword he had hassled across the Pacific, given him by his cousin, FDR, along with an instant "inside-the-Beltway" Navy commission.
John Lithgow is coming back to Broadway in a familiar role _ a newspaper columnist.
Foremost among the critical columnists was Joseph Alsop of the New York Herald Tribune, who said that "highly placed sources" in the Pentagon worried that the "American government" (read Eisenhower) "will flaccidly permit the Kremlin to gain an almost unchallenged superiority in the nuclear striking power that was once our specialty."
Old friend and columnist Joseph Alsop once told me of arriving in China with a clanking sword he had hassled across the Pacific, given him by his cousin, FDR, along with an instant "inside-the-Beltway" Navy commission.
