Ike & the U.S.
Sir:
Your recent news treatment of Mr. Eisenhower is said by some wags to be roughly equivalent to the College of Cardinals criticizing the Pope. If being 67 years old is what is slowing down the President, then I heartily wish TIME were twice its present age.
DOROTHEA MORRIS Smyrna, Ga.
Sir:
You show a lack of appreciation of the personal sacrifices the President has made since 1956 when he bowed to Republican demands that he win for them a second term. D. ARTHUR New York City
Sir:
Please lay off nagging Ike every time he takes a change of scene. F.D.R. spent long weeks working at Warm Springs, Ga. and no one ever nagged him about it.
MARGARET MARTIN Moultrie, Ga.
Sir:
Your March 3 issue lead story has these words: ". . . what longtime White House reporters deemed the most baffling of all Dwight Eisenhower's presidential weeks." Out of curiosity, we hunted today for any White House reporters (aside from TIME'S man) who had been polled by TIME on what they thought of the President's week. We are sure you are not surprised that we found not a one. We question your right to attribute your own conclusions to "longtime White House reporters" who might not agree with you.
MERRIMAN SMITH GARNETT D. HORNER Press Room The White House Washington, D.C. ¶ TIME'S own White House reporters do not need a poll to know when their colleagues are acting baffled.—ED.
Sir:
Indelicate is one word to describe Washington newsmen who keep harping to Ike about his health and reduction of his work load. These patriots err by putting all their eggs in one basket. If they are really concerned for the country's good, let them also visit the halls of Congress where absenteeism is said to be high.
E. MARCELLUS NESBITT Beaver, Pa.
T.R. & the U.S.
Sir:
Your March 3 cover article made me feel like a kid again, for it took me back to my grammar-school days when Teddy was the hero of every schoolboy. Bully for you.
F. J. TERRA Major, U.S.A. (ret.) Cambridge, Mass.
Sir:
T.R. wisely told us to "speak softly and carry a big stick." Nowadays, the big stick is a mashie.
LEA HOPE BLUM Chicago
Sir:
Give me a Republican President of T.R.'s stature, and I'll quit voting Democratic—as I have in the last five campaigns.
W. T. WARD Anaheim, Calif.
Sir:
T.R.'s day is over—why not realize we are in the Sputnik Age? No wonder the Russians are ahead.
T. J. JOHNSON Minneapolis
Sir:
How badly we need a leader of Teddy Roosevelt's plain, old-fashioned guts today. Instead, we are stuck with pussyfooting little politicians, afraid of the voters' shadows. Would T.R. ever have sanctioned the ruinous farm surplus system, the Korean disaster, the betrayal of Hungary, the Aswan Dam blunder?
P. J. REED-MAAR
East Haddam, Conn.
Sir:
Theodore Roosevelt was not a member of Alpha Delta Phi at Harvard. Rather a most illustrious member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
KARL ROBINSON New Haven, Conn.
¶ See below.—ED.
Sir: