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could control it. were unalterably opposed to it. The bureaucrats Eisenhower was opposed to it. It was just because of sheer personal power that we were able to start it. Now, our original idea was to build a center on top of Diamond Head Mountain

of the delegates at a national convention. So a lot of people [wanted to nominate Eisenhower]. Olin Johnston from my state of South Carolina flew over to talk to Eisenhower about Eisenhower being the Democratic nominee. And there were a lot of stories
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supersensitive about press releases about how the Democratic leadership should be fighting Eisenhower, and what I called the Joe Rauh-ADA-superliberal wing of the Democratic Party had entirely too much control of the personnel at the Democratic National Committee
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: It had been the policy of the Eisenhower Administration and their Interior Department to try to get the government out of the dam-building business. The Eisenhower Administration used all the political muscle they had to keep this Echo Park Dam from

expressed when he came back? B: You know, in reading your notes I think that the wisdom of people like Senator George and of what I call the elder statesmen was able to help guide Eisenhower through this period. You got to remember now, Chiang Kai-shek

Republicans. So Russell, he also wanted to be president and he thought, of the people he knew, Truman and [Robert] Taft and Eisenhower and all these people, that he was by far the ablest one of all of them, and he was a very able fellow. But he missed

governor of South Carolina, Earl Morris, Jr., who was a candidate for governor and who was defeated. I moved to Pickens. My father was the village carrier, then became postmaster during Eisenhower's administration, thanks to Senator LBJ Presidential

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