European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday october 12,1990 historians now calling Ike our first Teflon president Gettysburg a. Apr on the 100th anniversary of his birth some historians and political scientists Are saying Dwight a Eisenhower was a a Teflon president before the term was invented. A Eisenhower got very Little mud on his clothes and when he did we cleaned it off for him. Even in a period of revisionism we still like Ike intensely. Even John f. Kennedy did no to get this kind of treatment Quot said John Robert Greene of Cazenovia College near Syracuse n. Y. A the is the Middle class personified More than any other president of the postwar. He is Middle american Greene said. A five Day conference on Eisenhower a presidency is being held this week at Gettysburg College near the farm Eisenhower purchased in 1951. The meetings conclude sunday with Ike a grandson David former president Ford and entertainer Bob Hope cutting a birthday cake. Eisenhower was born oct. 14, 1890, in Denison Texas. He died in 1969. Quot we re examining the eight years he was president. Examining the policies that Eisenhower set in motion and analysing what effects those policies had on successive presidents a said Shirley Anne Warshaw a professor of political science at the College and the director of the symposium. Such a Broad look at Eisenhower is unprecedented she said. A the Eisenhower years were followed by John f. Kennedy and Camelot and the new Frontier. Then came Johnson and the great society and Vietnam then we had Nixon and watergate a Warshaw said. A scholars were so captivated by the Post modern presidency that we have passed Over Eisenhower a she said. The term a Teflon president a referring to a president s ability to keep bad news from sticking to him was first used to describe former president Reagan. Teflon a registered trademark for a non stick surface Wasny to marketed for kitchens until the 1960s. Its not As though Ike was squeaky clean. A Eisenhower supported far More Covert activities than the Public knows a Warshaw said. A this role in the Mccarthy hearings was despite his sending in troops to Force school integration in Little Rock ark., a Eisenhower was not a civil rights activist a Warshaw said. While Eisenhower retained his image As world War ii hero and family Man the glitter of the Kennedy presi Dency began to fade shortly after a fkr a assassination. Americans criticized the Young president immediately for the Bay of pigs disaster and later for planting the seeds of a major escalation in Vietnam. President Johnson suffered More with Vietnam As did president Nixon who also had to worry about watergate. Ford had to live Down pardoning Nixon. Eisenhower also had sent military advisers to Vietnam and Strung Nixon along while deciding who would be no. 2 on his ticket. A bigger dose for forgiveness came after it was disclosed he Hadnot been candid about the shooting Down of a u-2 spy plane Over the soviet Union in 1960, Greene said. A we did no to ignore the lie. We ignored the liar a Greene said. A what would happen today if one of our spy planes was shot Down Over Egypt and Dis. Appears and we come out Eisenhower and say it was a comm cations plane would the opposition party let him get away with it a Al like to use Ike As a verb a Greene said. A to Ike someone is not to ignore their faults but to accept the fact that their faults were less important than their Eisenhower also has earned his place As the United states neighbourly president mostly because others had a few quirks Greene said. A Truman is the crazy slug next door who wears the hawaiian shirt sipping a Pina Colada. Johnson would peer through the Bushes to see your teen aged daughter sunbathing and Kennedy would be there with him. Nixon come out of the House. Ford. Would be the Friendly neighbor. Carter would be the Guy Yard w0u it 0u now your dog walked across your you would see his wife More than see him. And Bush it would be like meeting Chevy Chase in Cadd Shack with the Golf club Slung Over his shoulder. But Eisenhower. He a the perfect next door neighbor Greene said. A the could borrow your Lawn Mower and you a probably get it heat flares in Texas Nebraska races by the associated press the heat soared on the National political Trail thursday when Texas gubernatorial nominee clan ton Williams called opponent Ann Richards a liar and former Texas sen. John Tower said sen. Jim Exon of Nebraska is reputed to be a one of the two or three biggest boozers in the Williams and Richards were making a rare joint appearance in Dallas and Tower was in Omaha neb., to Campaign on behalf of exons Republican opponent former rep. Hal Daub. Exon said towers accusations were false. Tower left the Senate last year after his aspirations to become Secretary of defense were derailed by allegations of drinking and womanizing. Exon a Democrat had opposed towers nomination. A we were talking about standards awhile ago a Tower said on Omaha radio station a Karl a Dro Gram a talk of the a senator Exon bore Down on me heavily on the drinking thing when he a got the reputation in Washington of being one of the two or three biggest boozers in the Senate. So Why did he take us the Cudgel on that a in Dallas Richards and Williams were on a podium at a gathering of the greater Dallas crime commission when Williams walked to Richards Side of the stage to Greet supporters. When Richards extended her hand Williams declined to shake it saying a a in a Here to Call you j Richards responded a a in a sorry Williams then added a a that a what you Are. You be lied about me you be lied about Mark White and you be lied about Jim Mattox. In a going to finish this Deal Richards Defeated White and Mattox in a bitter democratic primary. Williams Campaign spokesman Bill Kenyon said the Republican was upset that Richards was spreading a unfounded re Morse by trying to link Williams with a Federal investigation into alleged drug Money laundering. D v \ s Quot Quot \ v ill lady wrestler Catholic school alters pledge to include born and unborn Lorain Ohio apr a roman Catholic High school has amended the pledge of allegiance by adding the word a a unborn to reflect Church opposition to abortion. Some students at Lorain Catholic High school reportedly Are unhappy about the change which adds after a Liberty and Justice for All a the words a for the born and a a what a really upsetting they Are trying to make us believe what they believe about abortion a said one 17-year-old student who declined to be identified. A but most of us Here think its a woman a right to Joanne Miller Lorain Catholic principal defended the move As appropriate. A we Are a Catholic school and therefore our philosophy is one of pro life a she said. A a the pledge change was suggested to us. It does not go against our some students said they would Boycott classes thursday but this could not be confirmed. A woman who answered the Telephone at the schools office said the school had no comment and Hung up. Miller apparently knew of the objections. She was quoted thursday in the morning journal of Lorain saying a i did not realize there was a difficulty with this until tuesday morning i was wondering if the students concerned would come talk with me. They have Jerry Lackamp director of communications for the Cleveland Catholic diocese said reference to the unborn m the pledge is not policy for Catholic schools in Northeast to visit Moscow Washington a defense Secretary Dick Cheney will travel to Moscow next week for talks with his soviet counterpart Dmitri Yazoo As Well As other senior soviet government officials and prominent citizens the Pentagon said thursday. The visit tuesday through Friday will be part of a 10-Day trip in which Cheney also will meet with British defense Secretary Tom King in London from saturday to tuesday and French defense minister Jean Pierre Cheve nement in Paris from oct. 19 to 22. Cheney is expected to discuss the International military buildup in the persian Gulf As Well As other regional and global issues
