Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarcely twitched. The stock market ducked for a day, then bobbed up. Elsewhere, the momentum of U.S. life carried on without a jar. The Ford Motor Co. created no surprise whatever by announcing a half-billion-dollar expansion program in 1956. Aside from their interest in the bulletins from Denver, the U.S. people concentrated on the World Series, the annual climax of the most highly organized and statistics-adorned game that men have ever played...
While President Eisenhower lay ill in Denver, the team that he had brought to Washington was carrying forward the executive department's business in a manner unprecedented in U.S. history. For 2½ hours the NSC, composed of key U.S. officials who deal with the total problem of defense, e.g., the Secretaries of State and Defense and the defense mobilizer, worked its way through a normal agenda. Next day, with the young (42) Vice President again sitting as chairman, the Cabinet met and pushed through the week's business. Out of the two meetings came a list...
Operating under this system, the Administration can get along for a considerable time without the President.* Fortunately, at the moment, there is no major crisis facing the Government. To keep up liaison between Denver and Washington, as the President recovers, the NSC and the Cabinet decided to send the President's White House "chief of staff," former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams, to Denver. He arrived near week's end, and the staff arrangements for operation during the President's convalescence were complete...
...Touch of Heartburn. At approximately 4:30 p.m., as the two men approached the eighth hole (their 26th hole of the day. in Denver's 5,280-ft. altitude), the President complained of a little touch of heartburn. "Boy," he said with a grin, "those raw onions are sure backing up on me." But the indigestion-if it was indigestion-seemed minor, and Ike finished the round, carding a flashy 40 (he had shot an 84 on the morning 18). After a quiet dinner at the Doud home that evening, the President retired early. By 10 p.m.-17 hours...
...Secretary Snyder announced that Vice President Nixon, members of the President's family, and most of the Cabinet had telephoned Denver, and that no one planned to come to Denver. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks recalled that he himself had recovered from a heart attack a dozen years...