Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's move, decided upon at Gettysburg weeks ago, was announced right on the heels of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's bombastic boast that the Soviet Union now leads the world in the peaceful use of atomic energy. But its real significance lay in reaffirming the humanitarian position taken by the U.S. as a matter of principle long before the Russians knew how to split an atom. Said the President: "This action demonstrates the confidence of the United States in the possibilities of developing nuclear power for civilian uses. It is an earnest of our faith that...
Then the columns whispered that Ike was so frustrated around the house at Gettysburg in November that he decided the presidency could not be half so taxing. Asked a reporter: "Did you miss the bustle of the presidency while you were there?" Said Ike: "Anybody who has been busy, when he doesn't have immediately something at hand, has a little bit of a strange feeling. Now, but to say I was bored to death at Gettysburg-there are so many things that I have to do-I have piled up stacks of books ... I, as you know, daub...
...take into conferences when you have to get something done for the good of the U.S." Asked whether any members of his family objected to his running again, Ike goodhumoredly answered "No," thereby confounding the innumerable "reliable sources" who have reported that Mamie wants him to retire to Gettysburg. Another newsman who wanted to know just how the announcement of Ike's decision would be made got a grin and the response "Well, I suppose it will be just as dramatic as I can make it." In answer to the question "Would you favor Vice President Nixon as your...
...went upstairs to defend their figures before the Director's Review, presided over by Hughes's deputy, Percival Brundage (ex-senior partner of the Price Waterhouse accounting firm). Some half-dozen times Hughes snapped the latest batch of approved budgets into a notebook, and took them to Gettysburg for presidential approval. When the President would give "his O.K., Hughes would write the agency head what is called an "allowance letter," stating the presidential-approved figure. Only six budgetary points went over his head to the President, and these included the controversial programs for foreign aid, agriculture relief...
...papers from the Cabinet, the NSC, the agencies, etc., are routed through Staff Secretary Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, 40, an ex-SHAPEman under Ike. When the President is at Gettysburg, Goodpaster does most of the shuttling back and forth between there and the White House...