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1 A-4 THE STATE JOURNAL May 26, 1974 John Eisenhower's Life Haunted by Big White House 'JtZZZX "3 -r- is But already events had assured that the White House would not go away. Dwight David Eisenhower II had married Julie Nixon. THEY STARTED going together in college, she at Smith and he nearby at Amherst. The schools, John Eisenhower explains, were quite liberal, both in faculty and student body. David and Julie were of a conservative bent and "by and large these kids were outside the skunk works so to Nevertheless being sort of on the outs, they were automatically drawn together.

John and Barbara Eisenhower were delighted with the marriage. "We still are. But the fact of Richard Nixon's being in the White House has caused untold complications in everybody's life. Under any circumstances it would, under the most delightful circumstances it would." When his son went into the Navy for a while, John was "personally It got him out of the spin of things. "PERSONALLY I think people are being a little unfair with David when they and you don't hear it much any more when they start talking in terms of his being President when he hasn't even had a job.

I think that's pushed him a little hard. If he wants to later on, great. But I think it's putting too much of a burden on him. It's a pretty unfair thing to do. He's trying to earn his first nickel." He prefers not to talk about the Watergate that has marred the White House of Richard Nixon.

"I CANT add to the confusion on that one very much," he says carefully, sadly. "It's a national tragedy. It's been a trauma for me and the rest of us. For all sorts of reasons. We see a fella like Maury Stans being tried, and he was a fella I really used to have a lot of respect for and still do.

A very high regard for him when he was Dad's budget chief. Maybe that exoneration, that acquittal turned the tide a bit It sort of restores my feeling that maybe sanity might prevail. "There may be some good come out of all this. Most people think there will be. I think inevitably the concentration of power in the White House has become greater and greater all the time not by malice, not by Congress was not doing their job.

That's a power void that had to be filled "Now Congress is going to assert itself. Whether it's going to have the diligence or guts to continue to assert itself is questionable in my mind. I think so far as (Watergate) goes, the bubble just happened to burst at this time. I can't think of those people I knew so well down there as being less honest or dedicated than people in another administration. I really can't." HE IS reminded of the complexities that face a President, that faced his father, and the difficulty of maintaining an equilibrium, even between brothers.

Ike had two, Milton and Edgar. "He and Milton were quite close," John remembers. "Milton was the liberal brother and Ed, Dad's older brother, being right of Goldwater. I think I said right of Ivan the Terrible in the book. Ed used to write all these letters to Dad, saying "Dwight.

you quit listening to Milton' Once Ed came to the White House for a visit and Dad and Milton straightened him out, and he promised he wouldn't speak to another reporter again. "He was all very contrite. He went back to the Willard Hotel, and there were some reporters staving there, and he went straight to them and said, 'Boy, did thev give me hell' "ED WAS a very nice, kind guy. But really tough. We used to joke that, in 1964, if Barry Goldwater was elected, Ed would be the confidante and Milton would be writing letters." The pleasant home in Valley Forge seems too large for the John Eisenhowers now, with all but one of their four children married, none living at home.

This year he becomes eligible for full retirement from the Army, which will leave him with even more time on his hands. He plans no other activity but writing. Now John Eisenhower is between books, as well as between Presidents. He feels his major effort is still before him, but has no idea what the subject will be. Perhaps it will be "The Highest Level of Command" from the White House to 10 Downing Street to the Kremlin.

Which at least enlarges the arena from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Elsenhower, son of one President, father-in-law of another President's daughter a man between Presidents. He's a full-time writer today, and he's Just finished a second book, an autobiography. It ends before Watergate. That's "a national tragedy," he says.

"It's been a trauma for me." VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (AP) Between Presidents at the moment, John S. D. Eisenhower pauses now to survey his life, a life haunted by a big white house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. So distant, it seems, from this knolly green countryside where the dogwood bloom in white and pink profusion and where nearly 200 years ago Washington bivouacked his beaten army and lost 3,000 men to the bitter, hungry winter.

BUT FOR John Eisenhower, 51, the only surviving son of the 34th President of the United States, the White House is inescapable. It lurks in memory and in the files of presidential papers, and it returns vividly with the Secret Service agents escorting his son David and his daughter-in-law Julie when they visit. The Secret Service parks its bus on the Eisenhower lawn. Now he has finished his second book, this one a memoir entitled "Strictly Personal," covering in anecdotes his history from birth through his sometimes unwilling adventures into public life to his final assignment as ambassador to Belgium. SITTING ON his plush and pillowed sofa in his tasteful living room recently, he told a visitor why the book ends in September 1971.

"I wrote the introduction to the book and set the arbitrary cut-off date before Watergate hit. You've got to have a cut-off date at some point I arbitrarily set it as my departure from public life. I don't expect to go back into government any more. In other words, here's the end of a public career." 'That first sentence in the book is that I was born standing at attention, and that's about right. Dad was pretty much a martinet when I was young.

In World War he commanded a tank brigade and his nickname was 'Old Von "HE WAS a pretty iron-jawed character. A different personality than the picture the public had of him. He didn't have the grandfatherly look at all. He was big and powerful. He could chin himself five times with his right hand and three times with his left.

"Very strict. Also very interested. When he taught me the multiplication tables, he was always a perfectionist. Eight times seven? Right now and no hesitation. Drill.

Drill. Drill." But they did it together? "Oh, yes, we had fun," he says, his voice trailing off into memory. "Every now and then." ALWAYS, THE Army got in the way. "He didn't have very much time for his family," the words are not bitter. "And boy, I tell you I feared his wrath.

I didn't cross him at all." In his book, he says, "Had I ever, for example even in later years, pre-empted the right rear seat of a car or walked on the Boss's right, I know he would have been annoyed, even though he might have said nothing." But on this spring day, he almost apologizes. "Now the significance of that is lost to a lot of people. They don't realize that the right-hand side is the place of honor, if you have rank between two people." AT THE age of 14, he remembers things changing abruptly from a direct order relationship to something more mature. "He actually said, 'Well you're old enough to have some sense now. I'm not going to tell you what to do From that time on, if he thought I was dressing a little sloppily, or staying out too late, or he didn't like my chasing around, he would couch his terms always in a reasonable and philosophical sort of way." But he was always there, Ike was, even when he was away.

Even without direct orders, a son could pick up his wishes sort of by osmosis. "Dad never said I had to go to West Point," John remembers. "But I never heard the name of another school. I mentioned the Naval Academy one time, and he turned purple. So I never did that again." Maj.

John Eisenhower, left, meets his father, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Korea in 1952 how valuable I was to have around, for Dad's morale and things like that, duty to my country, that sort of thing. And so I found myself sort of being drawn back into this thing. My position as an Army officer was becoming untenable." HE DECIDED he should stay in the Army as Ike was in office, "just as protection against being approached by quick-buck people." But he decided, too, that he would eventually quit the army, and he reported to the White House as a major on leave. "As a White House staff officer, it was sort of heady stuff to have generals call up and ask if you could come over and brief them on this, that or the other thing," he remembers.

"Dad was the boss. He was a good boss. He was a good listener. But he was very impersonal. So the term boss is not too misleading.

That's the way I thought of him. I thought of him rather impersonally as the President, the Boss. Everyone around the White House called him the boss and as a matter of fact they had a lot of affection for him too. I wasn't singled out. I wasn't afraid I was going to inherit the "WE REALLY worked much better together when he got out of the White House.

He had more time for my affairs, and we were almost on a co-equal I was his exec and took care of a lot of odds and ends." He heard about his father's final setback on his car radio on the New Jersey Turnpike returning home from an author's luncheon for his first book, "The Bitter Woods." Within a few days Ike was dead. That was in 1969. "THE MILITARY kept us in more rigid roles with one another than it would have otherwise," says John Eisenhower, now a full colonel in the Army Reserve. "It was almost never entirely forgotten. Although I did call Dad Dad to his face in the White House.

Always." But being son to the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, or son of the President was hardly conducive to a military career. First in Europe he wanted to take command of an infantry company, but Ike's advisors forbade it. It wouldn't do to have the Supreme Commander's son in a position where he could fall into the hands of the enemy. Finally in Korea, he had risen to the rank of major, and the risk was minimized by the static situation near the end of the war. Nevertheless his Dad's parting advice was "Don't get captured." THIS SPRING afternoon, with his pretty wife, Barbara, gardening in the yard, and the warm sunlight brightening the floral upholstery in the living room, all of it seemed terribly far away.

The son recalling the military relationship with a father who was a general. "This was sort of a natural growing away which could have continued except when Dad went to the White House. I remember swearing in Korea, I said, dammit with the old man in the White House, when I leave Korea I'm going to transfer to Okinawa, and from there to Hawaii, and from tnere to the West Coast. They're never going to get me anywhere near that White House." "Then after Dad's heart attack, the whole picture changed. I found myself in the White House.

First the people around the White House weren't slow about telling me Ford Feels 'Let Down' Cancer Specialist Blasts New Test 'Open University9 Helps Adults Learn hope of cure." TO DISPUTE claims made for the CEA test, Dr. Moertel used figures from a study of CEA test results at Mayo Clinic, Presbyterian Hospital in New York and Boston City Hospital. He said the tests involved a total of 149 patients with cancer of the bowel wall. He said only 25 per cent of the 149 patients had a CEA-positive test and some were so marginal they were at a point where false-positive reactions also could occur. "In addition, both these and the 74 per cent whose reactions were negative already had significant symptoms that led their physician to the diagnosis of cancer," he said.

HE STRESSED that the 149 patients were not symptom-free or patients with minimal disease. tion of certain carcinomas, particularly those of the colon, rectum, pancreas and lung The assay may offer the clinician an early detection method." MOERTEL SAID the claims seem to be made incontrovertible by an additional statement that "data from 35,000 assays performed on more than 10,000 individuals confirmed the test's reliability." The Mayo specialist said that in the minds of patients and doctors, early diagnosis and detection of cancer realistically means "at a stage when there can be a reasonable expectation of cure. "It must be emphasized that the 35,000 assays in 10,000 individuals in no way pertain to this question," he wrote. "The overwhelming majority of patients in these studies had advanced cancer far beyond the ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) A Mayo Clinic cancer specialist describes as worthless an early cancer detection test which has been approved by the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Charles Moertel says the test is very expensive and has no value for the diagnosis of cancer in an early and curable stage. Moreover, he says it might even cause deaths if the tests of cancer patients prove negative and they fail to get the disease diagnosed in time for effective treatment. MOERTEL'S VIEWS on the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) test are given in a letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Moertel was critical of an announcement in the AMA Journal saying, 'It may be possible to make early detec to pursue a college degree as a result of the program. Harnett said 781 students participated in the three American Open University programs which ran from September 1972 to June 1973. Rutgers offered all three courses, Houston offered science and humanities and Maryland offered mathematics. Harnett said the percentage of students completing the entire Open University course for the three universities was consistently around 50 per cent. HE CAUTIONED, however, that the courses offered in the program required a good deal of student time and effort and rather traditional student competencies because they required much reading and frequent assignments.

"As such these courses should probably not be regarded as a particularly promising means of extending postse-condary educational opportunity to those who might be regarded as educationally at least not without additional student support services," the report concluded. AS IN Britain, centers were set up by the universities where students could come to study and discuss the assignments with fellow students and program staff. PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) The British college-level home study program known as the Open University can be adapted successfully by American colleges for well-prepared, highly motivated students, a year-long study has concluded. However, Educational Testing Service's evaluation of Open University programs at the University of Houston, the University of Maryland and Rutgers, New Jersey's state university, suggested that the program is not appropriate for the academically weak.

DEVELOPED IN Britain during the 1960s, the Open University has enabled thousands of British adults to earn formal degrees through home studies. Radio and television broadcasts are used to supplement traditional written materials. Rodney T. Hartnett, a research psychologist who directed the ETS study, said the Open University approach seemed to be a feasible alternative for institutions considering nontraditional degree programs for adult learners unable to spend time on campus. HE ALSO said that most of the American students who completed the Open University courses in science, humanities and mathematics at the American universities were satisfied and inspired THE ENERGY crisis: "I don't think the energy crisis is over by any manner or got to figure out how to use our energy resources in this country more effectively than we are doing today." Small cars: small car market is here to stay, and I think it is just a matter of how big it is going to be.

I further think that the larger cars are going to get smaller." Improved fuel economy for 1975-model cars: "We are making improvements as we go along, and we don't think the gas mileage will be worse, but it won't be dramtically improved." INFLATION: IT IS a terrible problem, but I don't know the answer to I think it is the most important problem we are facing in this country today." Drug use in auto plants: "Nobody will really admit to how bad it it is there, and I think it is a problem." His $865,000 salary in 1973: "We have always felt that our company should pay competitive salaries, and our industry does pay high salaries, but I don't know whether any one man is worth that or not." RETIREMENT: "I WANT to just stay at the Ford Motor Co. and do the best I can there until I have to retire at age 65 (in 1982). Maybe I will retire earlier. I don't know." DETROIT (AP) Henry Ford II, breaking a long silence on the Watergate affair, says he feels "let down" by President Nixon's refusal to turn over White House tapes to the House Judiciary Committee. "I think it is terrible.

I think it is awful," the Ford Motor o. chairman said in an interview taped for a Detroit talk show to be aired tonight. "YES, OF course I feel let down," said Ford, who contributed $50,000 to Nixon's re-election campaign in 1972. "I contributed the $50,000 because I thought that he was the better Apparently a lot of people felt that way." The grandson of company founder Henry Ford said Nixon should give the Judiciary Committee "everything" it asks for to complete its impeachment investigation. "I don't think he has any other basis on which to clear himself if he is innocent," Ford said.

"And I feel they (the committee) should have everything. "I THINK the country is in real trouble because of Watergate. The President obviously is, you know, spending a lot of time on Watergate instead of on the other things he should be spending time on." During his interview for station WKBD, the 56-year-old auto millionaire also said inflation has become the nation's No. 1 problem, the energy crisis will continue for "years to come" and he would like to see Ford President Lee Iacocca succeed him when he retires. Among his observations during the 30-minute session were: 'Defuse 4th of July' Illness Stalls Turner Jury Deliberations ban is necessary "in view of the significant number of injuries relating to firecracker use; the unfeasibility of construction requirements to adequately protect the public and the inadequancy of any precautionary labeling." An estimated 6,500 persons are treated for fireworks-related injuries in hospital emergency rooms each year.

That doesn't count victims who go to their family doctor. bited as of June 17. And, in anticipation of a buying spree preceding the ban, the agency is stepping up its lookout for bootleg fireworks operations. Comprehensive federal regulations, issued under authority of the 1960 Hazardous Substances Act, will override less restrictive laws in 18 states which still permit firecracker sales. THE COMMISSION says the WASHINGTON (AP) Over the objections of thousands of firecracker-loving Americans, the government is moving ahead with plans to defuse Fourth of July celebrations.

THE U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission says that unless it receives a "legally sufficient" request for a delay and public hearing, the sale and manufacture of firecrackers of all sizes will be prohi Icome grow with us COMMERCE CENTER BUILDING CAPITOL AT WASHTENAW Phone: 517-371-4691 MEMBEB FJX1C Steam-Powered Auto Passes Test GERANIUMS! nounced until he returns to the court Tuesday. Tjoflat is a scheduled speaker at a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals conference in New Orleans. Turner, seven of his former executives and three Turner-founded companies Koscot Interplanetary, Dare To Be Great and Glenn W. Turner Enterprises are charged with defrauding "persons too numerous to mention" by selling distributorships without supplying necessary merchandise.

DEFENSE ATTORNEYS for the eight defendants said they tried to develop a strong retail business but were handicapped by delays in delivery and then by the numerous civil lawsuits restricting their activities. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) Jury deliberation in the mail fraud trial of businessman Glenn W. Turner and seven former associates was postponed for two days when one of the jurors became ill on Saturday. The jury, which received the case late Thursday, asked U.S.

District Court Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat to be excused shortly after its lunch break Saturday. It was reported that one juror was suffering from a chronic neck injury. THE JUDGE sent the seven women and five men back to their hotel, where they will be sequestered until Monday. They will resume deliberations Monday at 9 a.m.

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However, EPA said, the Carter steam engine still needs improvement in its fuel mileage and has yet to prove it can maintain its antipollution performance for a lifetime, as required for certification- For the test. Carter mounted the engine in a Volkswagen "Squareback" station wagon WASHINGTON (AP) A steam-powered automobile developed by a Texas firm has become the first vehicle of its type to meet federal antipollution standards, the Environmental Protection Agency says. A steam engine created by Jay Carter Enterprises of Burkburnett, was found in compliance with 1975 standards for emissions for hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and nitrogen pxides. AND, THE agency said, it Pogress Is Our Most Important Pxoduct Ea. 4.Y BARNES V4 APPLIANCES Avenue Floral 725 V.

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