Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finger and said: "In." Inside, Adams pointed and said: "Chair." The visitor sat down near the desk. Hat and coat still on, Adams opened several envelopes marked "Confidential." He pressed a buzzer and summoned an assistant staff secretary. Adams handed the aide a paper and ordered: "Send this to Gettysburg . . . Seems self-explanatory-but add any necessary comment." A telephone rang. Adams picked it up. "That's right," he said. "Yeah ... Let's try it." He hung up (Adams considers the words hello and goodbye to be the sheerest waste of time). Next, Adams left his office...
...birth of Mary Jean seemed to be for the President the most joyous event of the year. She drew him back from Gettysburg to the White House a day earlier than planned; she dominated the traditional holiday reception the next morning for the 700 members of the White House staff. Accompanied by Mamie Eisenhower, in a Christmas-red wool jersey dress, the President accepted congratulations beneath an 18-ft. spruce Christmas tree decorated with silver tinsel and electric candles. Everyone at the reception got a Christmas present from the new grandfather: a print of an oil painting that the President...
...Ikemen talk, confidently, as if the President will surely decide to run once he gets favorable word from the doctors. They argue that the strains of the presidency would not be so dangerous as the frustration of watching from Gettysburg while an Adlai Stevenson or an Estes Kefauver or an Averell Harriman dismantles the achievements of the Eisenhower Administration. One of the Ikemen said this week: "I'm confident he'll run again-if the doctors say O.K. I'm absolutely confident." In any event, the Ikemen feel they must get the bandwagon rolling through the period...
...Gettysburg White House went a petition urging the release of the 16 second-string U.S. Communists now behind bars for Smith Act violations. The signers: Eleanor Roosevelt, Socialist Party Patriarch Norman Thomas, News Commentator Elmer Davis, plus 43 other citizens, about half of them Protestant divines. A "Christmas amnesty" for the Reds, the petition argued, would help prove U.S. confidence in democratic institutions, boost the reputation of the U.S. abroad, and "contribute toward peace in the world." Meanwhile, in her monthly Q. & A. column ("if you ask me") in McCall's magazine, Petitioner Roosevelt...
When word spread that President Eisenhower would like to "go out and shoot some crows" during his Gettysburg sojourn, the President got a respectful but disapproving letter from the "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Old Crows." Copies also reached news-hungry wire-service correspondents at Gettysburg, and soon the deadpan stories were going out on U.P. and I.N.S. wires. Last week- as once before (TIME, Sept. 7, 1953)-the crows were coming home to roost: into the office of the society (which consists of a pressagent for National Distillers' Old Crow whisky) flew more than 500 clippings...