THE PRESIDENCY: The Cliff Dweller

The swirl of world events that sweeps around the President of the U.S. seemed last week to be moving with even more speed and spread than usual. The President has an expression for the kind of week it was: he said that it kept him leaping "from cliff to cliff."

"Prison Has No Fears." One day Dwight Eisenhower, who had accepted the unconditional surrender of Germany exactly ten years earlier, signed an order ending the U.S. occupation and recognizing full sovereignty for the West German Federal Republic. He welcomed home Admiral Arthur Radford and Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, who...

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