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Originally Posted by Radio
Well it's like the Charlie Chaplin mustache, forever unclean because someone else made it that way. Besides his name was Dwight...where'd they get Ike from?
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I've read that ‘Ike’ was intended as a short form of ‘Eisenhower’, kind of a family in-joke. His brother Edgar was Big Ike, Dwight was Little Ike. Eventually the big brother came to his senses, but Dwight did not like his given name (can you blame him?) and stuck with Ike.