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Obviously pleased by his Washington welcome. Chen later addressed the National Press Club, drove to the Pentagon for a conference with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Borrowing a presidential helicopter. Chen flew to Gettysburg for a short talk with Dwight Eisenhower, hurried back to lunch with Vice President Johnson and talk with Speaker Sam Rayburn on Capitol Hill, entertained Kennedy at an eight-course Mandarin dinner. Then he flew off to Manhattan, where he made a tour of Chinatown and met with U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold. Heading home this week, after stops in Chicago and San Francisco, Chen would take with...
...family reunion time for the Dwight D. Eisenhowers. While Ike and his three brothers got away from it all at a lodge near Watersmeet in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (reported the ex-President: "Fishing has been very fine and my golf very bad"), Mamie and her sister, Mrs. G. Gordon Moore, sadly met at the East Denver home where they grew up and where their mother died last September. While pondering the sale of the house, the sisters packed off many of its furnishings to Goodwill Industries, only to hastily retrieve a couple of items (including their mother...
...words of the paratroop general who led "The Battered Bastards of Bastogne," of the military diplomat who commanded U.S. troops in Berlin (1949) and Korea (1953), of the scholarly Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1945), of the restless, rebellious Army Chief of Staff under Dwight Eisenhower. They are the words of General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, U.S.A. (ret.), soldier and statesman who, by a remarkable turn in the wheel of fortune and the special needs of John F. Kennedy, last week had the biggest, toughest job of his career: military and intelligence adviser to the President...
Mission to Rome. In September 1943, with invasion imminent, Italy wanted desperately to surrender to the Allies. The Italians under Marshal Badoglio maintained that the 82nd could capture Rome by making a surprise landing. General Dwight Eisenhower assigned Taylor and Air Corps Colonel William T. Gardiner to check out the scheme by going to Rome...
...just in a trance"), and dismissed SEATO as a weak-spined organization, daring only to "send telegrams back and forth." He submitted to an hour of questioning at the National Press Club, and played host himself at a dinner for President Kennedy and for his old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. On another evening, he traded war stories with Secretary of State Dean Rusk-an old Burma hand-and was chided by protocol officers for forgetting to toast the health of the U.S. President. Having survived all the festivities, Ayub flew off for a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan and a visit...