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...trunk spouting smoke. It had a tail and four-foot ears, and big blue eyes were painted on the windshield. To the housewives of Ivanhoe Street, the Congrelephant was not nearly so exciting as a simple black Chrysler limousine that pulled up 15 minutes later. The limousine brought Mamie Doud Eisenhower to do some politicking for her friend Ellen Harris...
...flew back to Washington, picked up a lot of paper work, and with Mamie took off for Denver and semi-vacation. On the plane the President signed into law 41 acts of Congress in 40 minutes, then relaxed. At Denver he greeted his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elivera Doud, and said: "Well, we're back again, Min. Boy, am I delighted...
Lieut. Dwight Eisenhower, 19th Infantry, U.S.A., and Miss Mamie Doud were married in Denver on a July afternoon in 1916. It was the time of the hobble skirt, the Pianola and the maxixe, the year that Woodrow Wilson won his second term as President by the margin of 3,806 California votes. It was a time of gathering tension, and because of trouble on the Mexican border, the Eisenhower-Doud wedding was held four months earlier than had been planned. The bridegroom, just promoted to first lieutenant, didn't have time to get new silver bars for his uniform...
...Post and Times Herald Publisher Philip Graham turned to the man next to him. "Your wife," he said, "is costing me a lot of money." Replied Dwight D. Eisenhower: "How do you mean?" Explaining that the Post had paid dearly ($2,400) to serialize Dorothy Brandon's Mamie Doud Eisenhower, A Portrait of a First Lady, Graham went on : "The articles cost me so much that I asked my circulation man what he thought. You know what he said? 'Mamie...
...sand from Normandy's beaches. Military items predominate, but scattered through the collection are some mementos of Ike's youth: the family Bible, in German; his father's gold watchfob and the shiny Rausch & Lang electric automobile that Ike's mother-in-law, Mrs. John Doud, drove around Denver at 15 m.p.h...