Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blasted daily by million-volt X rays aimed at the cancer in his abdomen, John Foster Dulles started his third week in Walter Reed Army Hospital thoughtfully reading the newspapers. The uncheering news: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey had joined Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington in demanding that...
Dwight Eisenhower, on his fourth visit since Dulles' hernia operation disclosed persistent cancer (TIME, Feb. 23), quickly sensed his friend's low morale. He started to talk of how Dulles had provided much moral encouragement during Ike's own recoveries, from ileitis and the coronary attack. Dulles...
Next day Dulles began wandering out of the presidential suite (two bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, bath) to pay early-morning calls on other patients in nearby rooms. On his 71st birthday-Feb. 25-he had not one but three parties. Before noon the hospital staff brought him two...
The President, who continued to visit or pen a note to the hospital every couple of days, tried again to squelch the chatter about retiring Dulles. To G.O.P. congressional leaders, meeting at the White House, he passed the word in firm tones: "It is my responsibility." In press conference he...
But the White House was, in fact, beginning to think about the contingency that he might find himself unfit. Gist of the thinking: Dulles would continue as the President's top adviser on foreign policy, and the President would choose a new Secretary from among Dulles' top lieutenants...