Peppermint Psaki channels Eisenhower

The Nixon Foundation:

At a press conference fifty years ago today, the topic of Vice President Nixon’s role came up. President Eisenhower had this exchange with Time‘s Charles Mohr:

Q. Mr. Mohr: We understand that the power of decision is entirely yours, Mr. President. I just wondered if you could give us an example of a major idea of his that you had adopted in that role, as the decider and final–

THE PRESIDENT. If you give me a week, I might think of one. I don’t remember.