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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Eisenhower Shies Away From Role as Chief Republican Spokesman
Keillor's Note Merriman
Smith, who has reported the ac
tivities o( four presidents for
L'I'I, recently paid an Informal
visit to an old friend and news
subject, .former .President
Dwight D. Eisenhower. They
chatted for about two hours in
Eisenhower's Gettysburg office.
No notes were made, no rec
ords kept, but here is Smith's
report on Eisenhower's current
mood and manner.
Bv MERRfMAN SMITH
UPt White House Reporter
GETTYSBURG, Pa. UPI -It
was more of a friendly chat
than an interview. We compared
notes on children and grand
children, on aches and pains,
trends in presidential news con
ferences, reading tastes and the
1964 political outlook. After
about two hours, I asked him
how he would describe our con
vcrsalion. "Just say you dropped in for
a talk with the old farmer," re
plied former President Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
Eisenhower will be 73 years
old next Oct. 14. He seems a
bit heavier than when he left
office in 1961, particularly
around the face and middle.
This mav be because he has not
been getting as much exercise
. ue uiu.
Works on Review
His principal preoccupation
these days is completion of the
second volume of his massive
review of eight years in the
White House, plus occasional ar
ticles for a national magazine.
He keeps in close touch with
politics, particualarly those in
volving the GOP. But more and
more, Eisenhower shies away
from the role of chief party
spokesman. He is convinced this
is a job for promising new Re
publican leaders.
Sitting in his small, cheerful
office on the second floor of a
building at the edge of the
Gettysburg college campus, Ei
senhower seemed quite relaxed.
It was 9 a.m. and he had been
in his office for nearly an hour
A visitor to Eisenhower's of
fice punches a doorbell. The dis
embodied voice of Brig. Gen.
Robert Schulz, military aide to
the five-star general, asks the
visitor's business throuch a
small combination mircrophone
speaker embedded in a wall.
The locked door was opened
by a buzzing contraption and
moments later the visitor was
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ny office. The former president
was studying the preliminary
draft of a magazine article.
His first conversation, how
ever, was about his grandchil
dren. David was enroute to his
second year at Exeter, but Ike,
as the kids call their grandfa
ther, was more talkative about
their jobs this past summer.
David worked in a college book
binding plant; Anne was Moth
er Goose in a local amusement
park pageant and Susie got a
job as a restaurant helper.
Hoars With Laughter
The general rocked with laugh
ter as he described the levels
of their wages. David, 15, made
75 cents an hour. Anne, 14, made
only 15 cents an hour less. Su
san. 11, received 50 cents an
hour.
The talk of his literary career
led to discussion of the presi
dential news conferences past
and present. Eisenhower feels
that television cameras and ra
diomicrophone s have a strong
and permanent right at such oc
casions. Eisenhower shies away from
saying anything that could be
construed as direct, personal
criticism of President Kennedy.
But he recently told friends on
an eastern newspaper who had
inquired that he thought over
use of political or administra
tion propaganda in a presiden
tial news conference tended to
tarnish the integrity of the
event.
To this day, he seldom reads
anything written about himself.
This is a pattern he began dur
ing World War II. He deliber
ately restricted his newspaper
reading while he was in the
White House and for this, he
had an interesting explanation.
Head Top Secrets
As president, Eisenhower read
a constant stream of top-secret
reports, many of them dealing
with paramount news stories of
the day and containing a great
many classified details which
did not appear in public print.
He soon found that in discuss
ing such subjects later, it was
hard to separate between classi
fied material and what had been
published about a given situa
tion. As a result, he confined most
of his newspaper reading aside
from brief morning and evening
rundowns to Sunday after
noons when he carefully scruti
nized the weekly review sec
tions of about a half dozen ma
jor newspapers.
Gives General Views
In other areas D.D.E. reflect
ed these general attitudes:
Nuclear Test Ban: Like many
lop U. S. diplomats, he believes
it may be a turning point and
should be ratified by the Senate.
But he hopes the public does
not get the idea that the limited
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to the point of amending the
treaty. He merely was asking
that it be made clear the United
States retain freedom at all
times to use its nuclear arms
should this extreme step be
necessary to defend this coun
try or her allies.
President Kennedy made such
an assurance last week.
Budget: Eisenhower's feelings weakens the national economy,
about federal spending seem to ' Politics: He's not taking pub
grow stronger with the passage lie sides between New York
of time. He thinks there can be Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and
no greater threat to national Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwatcr
security than unwise, unneces- in their quest for the GOP presi
sary spending which in turn dential nomination.
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