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Dwight Eisenhower: Man
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Besides playing golf and fishing, Dwight Eisenhower enjoyed painting for relaxation. This volume contains fifty full-color reproductions of his oil paintings and provides another insight into the interests of a complex man.
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[I]t took Eisenhower three years to balance the budget, and his victory was illusory because mounting expenditures for foreign aid and defense soon produced a new deficit. He ... secured a token cut in support prices for agriculture. At first his cautious efforts to outflank McCarthy were fruitless, but McCarthy overreached himself in 1954, was censured by the Senate, and lost his influence. Meanwhile, a mild economic recession had begun, and many people blamed the monetary policies of George M. Humphrey, the conservative secretary of the treasury.
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As described in the introduction, this 88-page bibliography contains separate alphabetical listings of manuscripts, federal records, microfilm, oral histories, and audiovisual holdings of the Eisenhower Library. Personal papers in manuscript form or on microfilm are listed under the person's name. Entries give the inclusive dates of the collection, volume in linear feet (2,000 pages equals 1 foot) or meters or rolls of microfilm, and a brief description of the person and his or her relationship to Eisenhower. To oral history collection in the library has two parts-one begun in 1960 in cooperation with the Columbia University Oral History Project and the library's own project begun in 1963. The library's audiovisual collection contains some 210,000 still prints; 585,000 feet of motion picture film and videotape; and 2,298 hours of audio recordings. Other library guides and specific collections are ... given.
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