Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history under the Arthur Schlesingers (father and son), Frederick Merk and Samuel E. Morison as a Nieman Fellow (1951-52) at Harvard and likes to think of himself as an amateur historian. His specialty was the Revolutionary War, but now he is a Civil War buff. On weekends at Gettysburg he has tramped over the battlefields near the President's farm, armed with a huge folding map and binoculars, sometimes studying with Dr. Frederick Tilberg, chief historian at Gettysburg, at other times with his 13-year-old daughter Debby and nine-year-old son Larry, who currently is concerned...
...strode into the Indian Treaty Room of the old State Department Building for his first press conference in eight weeks, an overflow (311) crowd of reporters craned their heads to see for themselves. The President, dressed in a lightweight grey suit, looked more fleshed-out than during his Gettysburg convalescence, but still seemed thin...
Question of Death. The moment of high drama came almost at the end. Even the correspondents sucked in their breath as the Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin raised an issue never before put to a President in public. Many of Ike's old friends in Gettysburg, said McGaffin, although anxious to return him to office, "feel you have done enough for the nation, and they are afraid that you won't last out; they are afraid you won't live for another four years...
...have in mind? Replied Harold: he wanted the President's permission to take a month's leave to expand his pro-Herter activities. With a sigh of relief the appointment-makers fixed a time, and early last week Stassen was winging to Ike's Gettysburg farm for a friendly 20 minutes...
...Representatives marshaled by Senate Minority Leader Bill Knowland. Republican National Chairman Len Hall, and diplomats from the six nations Nixon had visited on his voyage around the world. Travel-weary but smiling, Dick Nixon greeted old friends, but kept his conclusions to himself until he could fly to Gettysburg for a report to the man who had sent him hopping from the Philippines to Viet Nam, Formosa, Thailand, Pakistan and Turkey...