Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carefully, artfully, the Prime Minister stressed the casual nature of it all. It just happened, he said, that he was on his way to a holiday in Jamaica to "soak up some sun and some warmth-naturally I looked in to pay my respects to the President and President-elect . . . It's just a meeting of old friends," he insisted. "We've met perhaps a hundred times before . . ." No, he couldn't say what he and Ike might talk about. "I've no idea. It's to be just a private, informal conversation between...
That evening, at the Manhattan home of Old Friend Bernard Baruch, the Prime Minister had his visit with Old Friend Eisenhower. The President-elect dropped in on the way home from his Hotel Commodore headquarters. Eisenhower, who had last seen Churchill in London during his May 1952 farewell tour as NATO commander, said to the Prime Minister: "You look much better than when I saw you last...
...mighty job of readying a new Administration went forward intensely, strenuously, on the sixth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, Dwight Eisenhower, like the rest of his headquarters staff, arrived each morning between 8 and 8:30. Some nine hours later, the President-elect emerged from the heavy daily round of callers and conferences; one evening, just before stepping into his limousine for the drive home to Morningside Heights, he smiled for the inevitable waiting cameramen, and remarked: "First time out today...
...year, Ike gave the staff permission to knock off at noon. Newsmen pressed him for a New Year's message to the nation, but he declined, on the ground that a formal statement was the traditional function of the President and not the President-elect. But the news microphones were there as Ike emerged. Cheerily waving his brown felt hat, he wished a "Happy New Year to everybody everywhere." Then he was off to a holiday with his family, a champagne toast to see the New Year in, and a quiet Jan. 1, enlivened by the chatter...
...Harmonious Lunch. The week's No. 1 conference took place around Ike's luncheon table at the Commodore. For 2½ hours the President-elect talked things over with the new Republican high command in the Senate: Ohio's Robert Taft, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, North Dakota's Milton Young. The purpose of the get-together was to establish firm working liaison between executive and legislature and to straighten out patronage procedures...