The job hunt rolls on, but hopefully something will
materialize in relatively short order.
In the meantime, I’m just doing what I have to do.
A while back I did get to have a little day trip up to
Abilene for a visit to the Eisenhower Center. The have a good museum, with lots of interesting
artifacts. One that stood out to
me (despite being only a couple feet from a piece of real Moon rock) was the
actual teleprompter scroll DDE used during his speech that mentioned the “military
industrial complex”.
On the grounds are a number of buildings, including a house
DDE lived in growing up. I was
surprised to find out that it was still in the original location, not relocated
from elsewhere in town. It had a
very nice front parlor room.
DDE and Mamie are buried in the chapel also on the ground of
the center.
I read an excellent biography about Eisenhower (by Michael
Korda) a few months back, which helped make this a very interesting little
visit to a place I had not been to since high school. Though DDE is not commonly mentioned in the pantheon of the
greatest U.S. Presidents, I think he was an intelligent fellow that understood
compromise and devotion to duty.
It would be nice if more of that could be injected into government today.
"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help."~Homer, The Iliad
