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...from the East Side. The U.S. was good to the family of thankful refugees. A third child, Gitel (Augusta), was born in 1908. Two years later the Rickovers left Manhattan's seething East Side and moved to Chicago. Prosperous enough to avoid the slums, they settled in respectable Lawndale. They never went hungry again. Father Abraham always had work as a tailor. In 1919 he started a small garment factory, which he sold in 1946. Now he owns an apartment house on Chicago's North Side. Though 79 and comfortably fixed, he still plugs away as a tailor...
...days later. President Eisenhower announced in Augusta that the U.S. will soon bring home two divisions (some 32,000 men plus support troops) of its six Army divisions from Korea as a first step in the gradual reduction of its ground forces there. The withdrawal, said Eisenhower, was further proof "that we ourselves have no aggressive intentions, and that we are resourceful and vigilant to find ways to reduce the burden of armament and to promote a climate of peace...
...light lunch and inspection of their grandchildren's tree, while Major John Eisenhower observed the Army's tradition that an officer eats Christmas dinner with his troops. Then, with all the family aboard, they flew off again on the last leg of the trip to the Augusta National Golf Club...
...Augusta the President, bubbling with the Christmas spirit, emerged from the plane carrying Susan. That night, as the family gathered around the tree in the presidential cottage, Ike was still beaming. The room was a pleasant bedlam-grandchildren, toys, noise, and the happy litter of Christmas night. Mamie, with an arm around Ike's shoulders, coaxed him to tell reporters how he felt: "Tell them what you said to me this morning." Ike grinned and complied: "I said I'm not mad at anybody...
This week the President prepared to make a nationwide radio and TV Christmas Eve appeal for peace. Christmas Day the Eisenhowers would fly to the Eisenhower Cabin in Augusta, Ga., where he planned to work on the three messages he must deliver to Congress in January. "It will be a pretty tough time," remarked the President...