Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here every night"). He showed perhaps a more profitable political acumen in Harrisburg when he dispatched Running Mate Estes Kefauver to a hotel to cheer up 650 Ladies of the G.A.R., who waxed fuming because they had not been able to get an audience with President Eisenhower in Gettysburg...
...telephone rang in Vice President Richard Nixon's Washington office. Over the wire came the voice of Dwight Eisenhower, who wanted to talk about the speech Nixon would make that afternoon at Ike's Gettysburg farm. There 650 Republican leaders from every state would gather for the formal launching of the 1956 campaign. "Lay it on the line, Dick," said the President. "Let's get a little tough with those people...
Reversed Roles. From that position, the campaign of 1956 will get under way this week in earnest. At Gettysburg, Pa., more than 400 Republican leaders will gather to hear President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon launch the G.O.P campaign. At Harrisburg, a few miles to the north. Adlai Stevenson will put the Democratic campaign machinery in official motion with a 30-minute television and radio speech...
...will put on a nighttime version of Omnibus, the best of the highbrow shows, which moved over from CBS. Programs include a re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg as directed by Delbert (Marty) Mann and a look at the history of U.S. musical comedy through the eyes, ears and expressive hands of Leonard Bernstein. Disneyland will document "The Great Cat Family" with an all-animated cartoon, make a study of the atom and recount man's efforts to fly. Disney will also launch a TV spectacular called Johnny Tremain, about "events leading up to the American Revolution." Afternoon...
Steele never lets his historic musings make him forget the present. He has the battlefields cased for available telephones and keeps in touch with White House Press Headquarters in the converted basketball court at the Gettysburg Hotel-in case Neighbor Eisenhower makes any news...