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To: BlueCrab who wrote (20589)	4/6/1999 2:13:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

Well, I guess what I meant is that Ike managed to do the job without getting himself removed. And getting Montgomery and Patton, and DeGaulle, among others, to cooperate on doing anything must have been a constant chore. He had the ability to command, but he seemed to keep that aspect away from public sight. One of Eisenhower's cabinet officers took a dive when some policy went bad, I can't recall who it was right now. Ike surely had known and approved of the policy, but it was the cabinet officer who took the hit. In contrast Nixon got involved in the middle of the Watergate coverup, instead of having Mitchell walk the plank. Ike's failed policy, of course, wasn't some sleazy political intrigue like Nixon's bunch were involved in. But all the same, Eisenhower knew how to use the office, Nixon didn't.