Ike called a meeting of his "Board" chatted with his supervisors, asked them ' hows it going boys?" took a day or two to go around the table, told them to go back to work with the admonition, " keep in touch, and no surprises, please.
And he went back to a clumsy press conference and a golf game. Except for ending the Korean War
as he promised he would, a bout with ileitis and a stay at an Army hospital in Denver, his service to the country was exemplary. Everybody loved his steady hand and the feeling that everything was going to be ok.
When the economy sagged for a bit, he made an announcement that everybody should go out and buy a refrigerator or stove. We all did. The suppliers groaned under the demand.
Today, our president is overexposed on television. Each day, he appears with different messages on differing subjects that appear to change, flip-flop and counter each other from day to day. It's impossible to count on a consistent message, plan or policy that the public can count on, coming from the White House. The president's hired hands are equally inconsistent. Elements of the national media have fallen to calling the chief executive of our current government, " amateur." The current government has, in some domestic circles been labelled, " bush league." One is caused to wonder if such bad form is anything but purposeful.
Few if any corroborate what he insists are his dictum's from day to day, which must leave spokespeople, line workers and certainly political pols in a state of confusion. With the constant state of shifting sands on foreign and domestic policy for what was once the greatest nation on earth, is it any wonder the bad actors of the world are shifting tanks, planes, guns, murder and death around the globe at a frightening pace. The lunch organizer of south Chicago seems to be in over his head on the world stage, showing up at the G-8 summit in Europe chewing gum.
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