„… , and available.On September 1, President Eisenhower’s speechwriter, Arthur Larson, resigns. Unknown to …” „… HessIt was the blood oath of every Eisenhower speechwriter to avoid claims of credit. The words belonged …” „… quality) that ended with “Harry S. Truman.” I got my laugh, and thus began my career as a speechwriter.I …”

„… surprised and flat-tered. It might have been fine for Douglas Dillon, Eisenhower’s deputy secretary of state …” „… presidential speech-writer, part of a group that feels itself more exalted than other political scribblers and …” „… of Judson Welliver meet for dinner every other year, now at the home of Chris Matthews (speechwriter …”

„… military career, he received an unex-pected call to join President Dwight Eisenhower’s speechwriting team …” „… the action in Washington from Eisenhower’s time until now. Steve Hess has led an astonishing life that …” „… 2009. Hess served on the White House staff during the Eisenhower and Nixon presidencies and as an …”

„… , 130Civility book, campaign, 163–64Civil rights policies, Eisenhower’s, 43Clark, Joseph, 127Clinton …” „… Derthick, Martha, 127Desegregation policies, Eisenhow-er’s, 43Des Moines, Iowa, 158Dewey, Tom, 12, 25, 74 …” „… Columbia, 129–30Edwards, James, 146Ego Leak, 142Ehrlichman, John, 98, 101, 110, 117, 118Eisenhower, David …”

„… Edwards, Walter Hickel.147Bit PlayerAs part of the departing Eisenhower staff in 1960–61— my first …” „… lots of White House things that even a lowly speechwriter would have been glad to explain. I was asked …” „… , Eisenhower’s press secretary, really kept the wire service teletype in his lavatory. Yes, I answered. I could …”

„… their president than the older, self- made men of Eisenhower’s staff. This is not meant to imply that …” „… Eisenhower’s staff often disputed him, only that they were in a better position to do so. And while some young …” „… Eisenhower through the Nixon adminis-tration, not because succeeding presidents desired less back talk from …”

„… reserved for drafting sessions with his speechwriters.The official members of his administration formed …” „… to Sherman Adams by Dwight Eisenhower or to H. R. Haldeman by Richard Nixon.The White House staff’s …” „… had been Roosevelt’s draftsman in Albany, again emerged as chief speechwriter in 1936; Stanley High …”

„… President’s Cabinet: An Analysis in the Period from Wilson to Eisenhower (Harvard University Press, 1959), pp …” „… (Harper, 1961), p. 302. Also see Kenneth W. Thompson, ed., The Eisenhower Presidency (University Press of …” „… America, 1984), pp. 198–99.4. Dwight D. Eisenhower, The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953–1956 …”

„… Eisenhower’s Operations Co ordinating Board of the National Secu-rity Council and abolished scores of …” „… the assumption, later articulated by Roger Hilsman, that the way Eisenhower organized the government …” „… pro-duced “the basically conservative policies that .  .  . the Eisenhower administration desired …”

„… Departments.” One of those in attendance, speechwriter William Safire, later commented that this “was not a …” „… which he wished greater presidential control. He looked back with enthusiasm on Eisenhower’s extensive …” „… or disincli-nation of President Eisenhower’s successors to make effective use of this important …”

„… 404Dwight D. Eisenhower1953–1961If a new administration appears to be a tabula rasa, it is not …” „… presidency.Dwight D. Eisenhower, elected president in 1952, was a genial, shrewd, optimistic, confident, successful …” „… circumscribed.Eisenhower followed the pattern characteristic of the modern presidency by reacting to the style of the …”

„… , 120, 150; and Bush (G. W.) administration, 178, 180; and Eisenhower adminis-tration, 47, 50, 53, 65 …” „… ; creation of office, 205; Eisenhower, 4, 41, 45, 50, 180, 205; Ford, 115–116, 119, 120, 128, 206; importance …” „… Eisen-hower, 49; and Johnson, 68, 77–78; and Kennedy, 67–68; and Nixon, 68, 104, 106, 108; and Reagan, 138 …”

„… scares,including a heart attack in 1955. According to White House speechwriterEmmet John Hughes, Nixon’s “poised …” „… national spotlight theprevious eight years as Dwight Eisenhower’s vice president. He had, infact, earned …” „… universal praise for effectively subbing for Eisenhower inFigure 4.1. Ring of champions. The Vice President …”

„… recruit former West Point graduate andSupreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower for the GOP …” „… nomi-nation in 1952. In Eisenhower, Lodge felt he had the ideal candidate todefeat the Old Guard and regain …” „… could convince Ei-senhower, a closet moderate Republican, to commit to a presidential run.The task was …”

„… from a 1,364-word text he had spent weekslaboring over with longtime speechwriter and close aide …” „… the cumbersome Eisenhower committee system, whereby pres-idential decisions were arrived at …” „… secretary Tom Gates. “I talked over the presidency with Ei-senhower, and after hearing what it’s all about …”

„… Pigs catastrophe, a sheepish John F. Kenne-dy staged a “unity meeting” with Dwight Eisenhower at Camp …” „… Republican pre-decessor.1 If he was expecting a sympathetic hearing, he was gravelymistaken.Eisenhower …” „… responded that hewas only trying to keep American involvement in the affair concealed,Eisenhower dressed him …”

„… the Civil Rights Act of 1957, an Eisen-hower administration initiative aimed at the Jim Crow South …” „… with a little black bag and a check-book.”31Kennedy insiders like speechwriter and close political …” „… to the Republican inroadsmade during the Eisenhower years. In point of fact, the Eisenhower …”

„… Counsel to the President; Speechwriter’s Office: Subject File; Chronological File; Sarah Weddington Files …” „… : The Nixon Years, New York. Eisenhower, Julie Nixon (1986): Pat Nixon: The Untold Story, New York …” „… Dukakis, Michael 25, 34, 103, 121, 136 Eisenhower, Mamie 21, 63 Flowers, Gennifer 33f., 101f. Ford …”

„… McCarthy’s wings, it would be the popular Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man of honor born and bred in the …” „… menace to America,” Arthur Eisenhower had posited, “a throwback to the Spanish Inquisition.”By attacking …” „… , he pressed Ike’s speech-writers to drop a paragraph from his speech, to be delivered that evening, in …”