Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Continental Support. This week Secretary Dulles went back to Geneva for a conference of the Big Four foreign ministers, which President Eisenhower had defined as "the acid test" of the Soviet Union's peaceful intentions. After conferring last week with the President in his hospital room at Denver, Dulles reported: "I go to Geneva with the assurance that I have behind me a President who fully knows the issues and who has given me a full and comprehensive mandate to speak for our nation." He also got assurances of support from the leaders of Congress...
President Eisenhower's medical chart continued to show an upward curve. For the first time, he sat up in a wheelchair and was pushed around the sun-drenched porch outside his room at Denver's Fitzsimons Hospital. His diet became more varied.* He started two paintings. He got back to a part-time, Monday-Wednesday-Friday work week. And once more a stream of officials and friends, dammed up for three weeks, began to pour into Denver and up to the President's bedside...
Thank-You Notes. Along with his business appointments, Ike saw a few purely social callers. During his three days in Denver, brother Milton saw the President often, and Investment Banker Clifford Roberts, a close friend, dropped in for 15 minutes one morning. He was the President's first visitor who was neither a member of the family nor an official. The First Lady, meanwhile, continued to breakfast with Ike each morning and to see him as often as the doctors would permit. When she was away from her husband's side, Mamie spent most of her time...
...their ramble across the U.S., the Gills have had some variegated experiences and some positive reactions. In Denver they attended a children's birthday party at the airport (they have no children of their own). In Great Bend, Kans., when tornadoes pirouetted around the town, says Mrs. Gill, "we didn't have enough sense to be scared." They helped roll cigars in Tampa. To celebrate the Fourth of July, they climbed a peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. At the top they watched the lightning strike a forest below, while they chatted with the ranger and his wife...
Columnist Drew Pearson, whose inside stories sometimes have the facts wrong side out, had a sizzling inside story early this month for his readers in 600 papers. Wrote Pearson: "Here is some of the vitally important backstage byplay which took place immediately after the President was stricken in Denver." The story: Vice President Nixon had attempted "to take over the reins of Government" on the night of Sept...