Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...rainy in the Washington-Gettysburg area, and the President of the U.S., his week's work done, decided that a weekend around there would be no weekend at all. Dwight Eisenhower therefore got on the telephone, called several old friends, arranged for a get-together down South. Next morning Ike boarded his Air Force Boeing 707 jet at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., flew to the 14,000-acre Blue Springs, Ga. plantation of W. Alton ("Pete") Jones, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co., to put in a couple of days hunting quail...
...Georgia trip was a pleasant interlude. But as President Eisenhower prepared to fly back to Washington at week's end, a White House announcement underscored the work that lay ahead. The President of the U.S., said the announcement, had set the dates June 10-19 for his visit to Russia to see Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
After he was elected to the Senate in 1937, tiny (5 ft. 2 in.) Bachelor Green moved into Washington's University Club, soon plunged into work on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, quickly made a reputation for his thoroughness as well as his erudition, tramped energetically around the world on Senate business, won his heart's desire when he became chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He was then 90 (last year he gracefully relinquished his chairmanship because...
Green never learned to drive a car, still walks more than a mile to and from work when the weather is good. One of Washington's busiest partygoers, he keeps meticulous track of his engagements in a black notebook. Once, a hostess saw him leafing through the book, asked fondly: "Are you checking to find out where you go next?" Replied Green: "I'm checking to see where...
Since 1952, Kennedy continued, the U.S. has "seen one concept of the presidency at work. Our needs and hopes have been eloquently stated-but the initiative and follow-through have too often been left to others." He suggested that "the American people in 1952 and 1956 may well have preferred this detached, limited concept of the presidency after 20 years of fast-moving, creative presidential rule...