European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Memories of Bike dads Cigar smoke and pea shooter Sandy Rooney Tribune Media i remember a not being Able to reach the pedals comfortably on a new two Wheeler that was a Little too big for me. A stubbing my toe while going Barefoot in the summer. A getting a nose full of water swimming in the Lake on a rough Day. A coming to the top and starting Down the steepest part of the roller coaster. A sucking up the last of an ice Cream soda until it made a loud noise. A jumping in a pile of leaves before it was discovering Ike swarm Side toward the spy Warby w. Dale Nelson the associated press president Dwight a Eisenhower had an advantage that chief executives today done to have when it comes to spying. President Bush says in a to documentary. He did no to have to share his secrets with Congress. Bush a somewhat Wistful backward glance is one of a number of insights by government officials journalists and others in dangerous years. President Eisenhower and the cold War broadcast recently on the stateside discovery Channel. The program the first in a projected set of two is an outgrowth of last years Eisenhower Centennial the second program dealing with Domestic issues is planned for next november on the 40th anniversary of Eisenhower a first election. Bush a former director of the Central intelligence Agency says in an interview on the program �?�1 thought Back As to How Eisenhower and Alan Dulles Ike a director of Central intelligence worked in the Cia. A the president says "1 think Eisenhower understood that human intelligence a read spying a is  he adds Quot Ike did no to have the same constraints that i do in terms of making a decision with the Cia. Quot we report to investigating committees both in the House and the Senate. In the old Days you kind of whispered in the ear of some senior Guy up there who did no to much care about it and went on about doing your  the thesis of the one hour special s creators is that Eisenhower a imprint on foreign affairs during his eight years in office 1953-1%i, has been Al but lost in the Shadow of the tumultuous events since. Quot it was the 90s that did it to us Quot said George Colburn the shows executive producer. Particularly Vietnam. Quot we got so involved As adults in that particular problem that we forgot burned. A being pushed on a swing until 1 was so High 1 was seared. A having to take Caster Oil. A thinking that if 1 stepped on a crack. Id break my Mother s Back. A my father s Cigar smoke in the ear on a Long drive. A keeping the Turkey Wishbone. A having a Sty. A erasing a blackboard. A having to be Home for sunday dinner at 1 o clock when All the other kids were out playing because they did t have dinner until 9. A being Given $5 by my Uncle. A sitting in line at the Barbershop wailing my turn to gel a haircut. A sleeping in a tent when it was raining outside. A having to worry about bringing Home my report card to get it signed when my Marks weren t Good. A having a Sliver taken out of my Heel with a Needle. A the excitement of putting a 3-Ineh firecracker under an empty Coffee can. Lighting it and watching the can go 4 feet in the air with the explosion. A wearing a pair of shoes two sizes Loo Long because i was going to Quot grow into  a having to eat things 1 did t like because they were Good for me. A visiting relatives in Troy on saturday when i wanted to be playing football in the Hack lot. A Heine Given a Brand new. Big league baseball by a fail ices Friend with the big. Bushy Csc throws or. Bernard. A walking on stilts or jumping on a Pogo stick. A waiting to gel out of knickers and into my first pair of Long pants. A getting the High boots with the Little pocket on the Side with a boy scout a Nile in it. A putting potatoes Down among the coals of the fire we started up behind the garage and eating them an hour later All chaired and Black outside and steam delicious inside. A  Barkley. A making a Slingshot out of rubber bands a Little piece of leather and the Erich of a Small tree. A buying a double Decker chocolate ice Cream Cone for id cents. A Bubble gum pea shooters Hula hoops and Yoyos a Bellow hopping on my flexible flyer. A getting Maple syrup in every Hole in the Waffle. A the weird feeling 1 had coming out into the Daylight afternoon alter watching a double feature starring the likes of Randolph Scott the Cisco kid and hop along Cassidy. And hating it when the Cowboy hero wearing his White hat Sang on lop of his horse. A the starving chinese who would be glad to have what i was leaving on my place according to my Mother. Andy Rooney is a Lormor stars and stripes Rop Ortor president Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev Liwok like pals in 1959, but their countries weren t. About All the other  said Colburn. The Eisenhower years became known As an Era of complacency when automobiles sported big Tail itis Ike played Golf and  it to heaver reigned on Black and White television. Few would think to Call the period the Dan Gert is years. Yet Quot the other stuff included the 1959 crisis Over the Suez canal the simultaneous uprising against the communist government of Hungary the Shock Waves touched Oil by the soviet launching of the sputnik satellite in 1957, the Luxor Over divided Berlin in 1958 and the soviet Downing of an american spy plane that wrecked the Paris Summit conference of 1990. Quot they were years of backyard bomb shelters and red scares As much As Hula hoops and Elvis Presley Quot says John Chancellor the Abc commentator. Who serves As narrator. Colburn a historian who has produced documentaries on Public to said he talked with scholarly experts in preparing the program but purposely avoided interviewing them on Caucia. Quot we Felt that the commentators ought to have been witnesses to  he said. Quot we did l want to put on Arthur sch Csinger to give us the Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy View of Eisenhower. We decided to just have the people who were there talk about what they  among those interviewed in addition to Bush Are former presidents Nixon Ford and Reagan Sergei Khrushchev son of Nikita Khrushchev the soviet Leader in the Eisenhower Era George Reedy a lop aide to then san. Lyndon b. John son and journalists James Reston of i he new York l Imes. Chalmers Roberts of the washing ton Post and Ray Scherer of Abc news. Quot i can remember times covering various crises a with the russians of course always with the russians a and going Home and saying. In a not sure in a a thing to Wake up tomorrow says Roberts. But he did. A Walter All. We had made it i enough the a its had t we and nothing terrible Hail happened Quot said Colburn. The program adopting the revisionist View of Eisenhower views him As a much More Active president than he was once Given credit Lor. It is a quite uncritical View. Elburn said the second program on Domestic All nits will examine issues on which Eisenhower has Otten been criticized including ills civil rights record and ins initial appeasement of the red bailing sen Joseppi r. Mccarthy  i 1�?~j�?~h henday k Page 7