Word: doud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tears only occasionally. About two hours after the interment, when the last of the official visitors had departed, she returned unobtrusively to the small chapel. There she placed yellow gladioli on her husband's crypt and yellow chrysanthemums on the nearby tomb of her first born son, Doud Dwight, who died at the age of three...
...Annapolis, his first choice, Ike qualified for West Point, where he reported in June 1911. Never an intellectual, he distinguished himself more as an athlete than as a scholar, graduating 61st in a class of 164. At his first post, Texas' Fort Sam Houston, Second Lieut. Eisenhower met Mamie Doud, a vivacious belle from Denver. They were married...
They soon experienced a tragedy that was to stay with them always. Four years later, at Camp Meade in Maryland, their first son, Doud Dwight ("Icky"), 3, died of scarlet fever. "This was the greatest disappointment and disaster in my life," Eisenhower wrote in 1967, "the one I have never been able to forget completely. Today when I think of it, even now as I write of it, the keenness of our loss comes back to me as fresh and as terrible as it was in that long dark day soon after Christmas, 1920." At Abilene, the bodies of father...
...sons have had as big a shadow to live in as John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower. Few sons have seemed so willing to live in that shadow. At 46, young Eisenhower's physical resemblance to his father is, at certain angles, uncanny, and his first book suggests that the son may be almost as much think-alike as lookalike...
...splices just right, Doud and Co-Producer Alen Robin listened to 36 miles of taped interviews to clip out their answers, lined up such easy-to-recognize voices as Swayze and Westbrook Van Voorhis to put the questions. Not every exchange comes off; some are forced, obvious or needlessly raw. But the record does capture some high moments and victims...