Word: cart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the President was out in the open again, carrying a .410 gauge shotgun along a hedgerow, on the hunt for whatever legal game he might flush. Safely behind rode Grandson David Eisenhower in the pony cart...
...their father, Major John Eisenhower, the children played in front of the canary-yellow barn, watched by a full platoon of sharp-eyed cameramen and reporters. Lounging patiently at the barn door was Tony, a black-and-white Shetland pony, hitched up to a two-wheeled, wicker-basket cart...
...grandfather's directions, the wind-flushed children arranged themselves with poised proficiency. Into the cart went David, 7, his assurance unmarred by a missing front tooth. From Ike came a sudden stage direction: "Hey, stop chewing gum. You're getting your picture taken." David slowed his jaws momentarily, grasped Tony's reins and waited for his sisters to get in beside him. As the photographers fired at will, Barbara Anne, 6, assumed a dignified mien, staring thoughtfully out across the presidential fields. Susan, almost 4, watched skeptically and clutched her doll, whose name changes almost daily (current...
...Tender Mouth. Reporters began firing questions. Ike said he thought Tony was a gift from Packard "Dan" Hendrickson, brother of New Jersey's former Senator Robert C. Hendrickson. But the cart's origin stumped him. Observed David, "I think it came from Texas." (It came from an anonymous friend of Ike's in New York...
...know who's riding him." Indefatigably, the photographers next asked Ike to pat Tony. Sighing, Ike complied, addressing his feelings to Tony: "All right, Tony. They insist on getting a picture of you being patted." Off the Wagon. Susan got restless in the cart, delivering her only comment: "Hey, help me out." That matched Ike's sentiments. Ike told David he could drive on alone up to the farmhouse. Then the President, the girls and their father, not forgetting a black Scottie named Skunky, climbed aboard Ike's jeeplike Crosley...