THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Last of the Eisenhowers

He has the microwave smile that warms another person without heat. His feeling for America is long and loving. Milton Eisenhower, the last of that remarkable cluster of Kansas boys, turned 80 the other day and wished he could sculpt a U.S. President out of proven parts. He would weld his brother Dwight's heart bone to Franklin Roosevelt's head bone. What a work of political art that might be, he chuckles.

"No one matched Dwight Eisenhower in his love of people and his belief in people," said Milton. "He possessed great honesty...

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