"I Can't Be Bothered"

The way his White House underlings have often described it, Dwight Eisenhower's every-morning breakfast consists of orange juice, a steak, coffee--and generous portions of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune, along with occasional tastes of the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune. But at the President's press conference last week. Pat Munroe of Chicago's American asked Ike himself about his newspaper-reading habits.

The question: "When a cartoon or column appears in the press that is unfriendly to you, we often hear people say: 'I'll bet they won't let the President see that one.' Now what are your regular habits, sir, for keeping up with what we are saying about you?'' The answer: "Well, I don't know whether you can call it a habit--for the simple reason that it takes a lot of time if I was going to keep track of what all you people say. I take the--what I call the important sections of the Sunday papers that review world events--go over the things, and those are the things I study carefully. The kind of thing that you talk of, cartoons and unfriendly quips, I just can't be bothered."

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