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...Summer boarder at the Doud's in Denver...
...week in the air-cooled Rockies, although his bruised elbow had cut into his fishing (he did catch the biggest fish of the week, a 15⅜ in., 1¼ lb. rainbow trout). On his return to Denver, Ike hardly had time to greet the First Lady and Mrs. Doud before he was engulfed in affairs of state. Robert Cutler, chairman of the Planning Board of the National Security Council, had flown in from Washington with a fat dispatch case full of international problems, and was waiting at the summer White House when Ike arrived. After a four-hour conference...
...climbing to a top of 11,314 ft. in Berthoud Pass on the Continental Divide, Route 40 west of Denver is a spectacular highway. It was a ride Ike thoroughly enjoyed, and he was making it in pleasant company. With him were his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Doud, and a pair of old friends, General Lucius Clay and Washington Contractor Charles Tompkins. Mamie, who has been feeling under the weather and has appeared in public only twice since her arrival in Denver, stayed home...
Bridge & a Bull Session. Ike's evenings were spent with Mamie and Mrs. Doud. Sometimes there was bridge with old friends, and occasionally Mamie sang, accompanying herself on an old upright piano. More often the family just sat around the living room and chatted until 9:30 or 10, when Ike was ready to go to bed. Once last week Ike stretched his evening out, sat up late for a bull session with Presidential Aide Robert Cutler and Special Counsel Bernard Shanley, who were in town briefly from Washington. About midnight, shortly before Cutler's plane left...
...happenings at Mrs. Doud's home last week fitted right into the classic American vacation pattern. When Ike Eisenhower gets back to the office he could say, along with many another tanned family man, "We spent our vacation visiting the folks back home...