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What the ileitis did do was to throw even greater doubt on Dwight Eisenhower's availability for renomination, and for months the Washington press asked about little else. Hagerty knew when Ike was ready to run again, but he still had to fend off questions. Finally, at Gettysburg, Hagerty talked to Ike in a cattle pen near the gabled farmhouse. "How are things in the outside world?" asked the President. "They're driving me crazy about re-election," said Hagerty. "Let's break the logjam." replied President Eisenhower. "Jim, why don't you go back...
...piled on top of the President's two illnesses, dampened the Administration's drive in the second term-and made Jim Hagerty's job that much harder. Although the slowdown was yearlong, it got talked about most during the President's frequent vacations and long Gettysburg weekends. Hagerty struggled valiantly and, to a point, successfully in stressing work over play. He took with him on trips briefcases full of executive orders, appointments, etc., and parceled them out daily to make news under the Augusta or Gettysburg dateline. He encouraged feature stories on the Army Signal Corps...
...Into Gettysburg last week clicked a New Year's greeting from Russia's Khrushchev, Bulganin and Voroshilov ("We express the hope that the forthcoming year will be a year... when the great principles of peaceful coexistence...will become the basis of mutual relations between our states"") that turned out to be one of the week's cheerier messages to Dwight Eisenhower. At home, retired Defense Chief Charlie Wilson declared to New York Herald Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Robert J. Donovan (who wrote the authorized account, Eisenhower-The Inside Story) that Ike himself was to blame if this...
...Washington for his work-and-rest vacation (highlighted by granddaughter Susan's sixth birthday and a quiet New Year's Eve gathering with the John Eisenhowers, the Jim Hagertys, Farm Manager Arthur Nevins and Mrs. Nevins). But, as usual, there were final details to be decided. To Gettysburg came couriers carrying freshly typed drafts; back they sped to Washington, with here and there a penciled Eisenhower notation. Occasionally along the road the couriers passed higher-level visitors inbound to the farm. The week's first: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom, who came for final...
...Journal's own birth, less than two months after the Battle of Gettysburg, was hastened by the irresponsible fashion in which the daily press covered the Civil War. Under Editor William Conant Church, onetime chief war correspondent for the New York Times, who had served as a captain in the Union Army, the Army and Navy Journal in its first issue lodged a baleful eagle atop Page One, promised that the paper would be devoted without bias to "sound military ideas and to the elevation of the public service." The weekly, which expanded its name to the Army, Navy...