Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a 45-minute political discussion with Ike in Gettysburg Hall reported he felt "very much encouraged" and would continue making campaign plans on the prospect that the President will run again...
...faith in the continued growth of the U.S. economy, the Administration last week came close to outright prediction that tax revenues, higher than estimated, plus careful cost-cutting, can wipe out the $1.7 billion federal deficit and balance the budget. After discussing proposed 1957 expenses with the President at Gettysburg, Budget Director Rowland Hughes told reporters that the Government's income should match its estimated $63 billion outgo, not only in 1957 but in the current fiscal year ending June...
...sooner had President Eisenhower moved into his Gettysburg farm last week, than enterprising photographers, training long lenses from perches as far away as one-eighth of a mile, got pictures that seemed to put the viewer right into Ike's backyard. Next day Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty asked photographers to stop it. "It is vitally important to the welfare and to the health of the President," said Hagerty. "that he be allowed to walk around that farm without having or being conscious of telescopic lenses on him at all times...
Hagerty spoke to the White House press corps from a new address: a Gettysburg basketball court that had been trans formed into headquarters for the 48 newsmen covering Ike's sojourn. One end of the white and rose room-which still looked like a gym-was the assembly area for Hagerty's twice-daily briefings...
Townsfolk wandered in and out, especially after the evening movie let out next door, peered over reporters' shoulders. Moppets surprised the newsmen by asking for autographs. Pretty coeds from Gettysburg College dropped in regularly to cover the Hagerty briefings for the campus paper and to talk shop with press corps veterans...