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Show Oct. 14 Is Ike's Bate The birthday anniversary of - ihe late President Dwight D. Eisenhower falls on Oct. 14. The wartime leader of Allied forces in Europe was born in bilene,Tex.,in 1890. Hedied iving in Pennsylvania on torch 28, 1969. EISENHOWER'S eight (tats in the White House (1953-60) are sometimes characterized char-acterized as years of little accomplishment by reformers and liberals who feel he didn't further social change and domestic legislative progress as fast as he should have. Whether this is a valid criticism critic-ism or not, Eisenhower was the man Americans wanted in the White House. The American Amer-ican people had confidence in him. Because of his personal-ity personal-ity and integrity, voters trusted JWjand admired him. $j HEWAS.ofcourse.amilit-iorary HEWAS.ofcourse.amilit-iorary hero. But the evidence of y recent years suggests he was painfully naive about the Rus- I sians in 1945 when he decided not to enter Berlin first, as he could have done. His letter to Stalin, and his refusal to seize Berlin as Churchill urged him to do, reflects the unknowing political philosophy of so many Americans of that era. In spite of some failings, however, Ike remains a popular popu-lar memory to most Americans. Amer-icans. Basically, that's because be-cause he was an open, intelligent intelli-gent and honest man of little pretense. He was, in fact, the typical American boy grown into generalship and leadership, leader-ship, with a boyish grin and handsome appearance. IKE WAS, then, representative representa-tive of what so many Americans Amer-icans think of as the typical American. His mistakes and follies they understood; his strengths and accomplishments accomplish-ments they admired. History will surely record that he was one of the most popular of America's twentieth century chief executives. |