Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the Gettysburg post office, Ike will direct the affairs (though not the panoply) of state-but he will spend as much time alone on the farm as he can. There, aside from watchful Secret Service men, only Mamie, Master Sergeant John Moaney (Ike's valet) and Mrs. Moaney will share his privacy. The farm remains the quiet refuge Ike envisioned in 1950 as his first permanent home...
...when she first saw it. In the new north wing living room is a white marble fireplace brought to the White House by President Pierce in 1854, junked by President Arthur in 1882 and tracked down through the Smithsonian Institution by White House aides, who secretly installed it at Gettysburg. Upstairs are six bedrooms and a studio in which Ike can paint as he looks out over the Blue Ridge. His other hobbies are served by a new putting green and a pond freshly stocked with bass...
...Lincoln. Adjoining is Ike's beam-ceilinged study, a null room with a masculine air: soft leather lounge chairs, an old Dutch oven, a pine cabinet built from discarded White House timbers. On one wall is a reproduction of a cyclorama (TIME, July 5, 1954) of the Gettysburg battlefield, showing locations of men, guns and horses on July 3, 1863, when Pickett charged toward Cemetery Ridge, just over two miles from Ike's windowsill...
After Pioneering. Four miles northeast of Ike's new address (Route 10, Box 218 Gettysburg) is sleepy Gettysburg (pop. 7,046) and the little Presbyterian Church which Lincoln visited after he spoke. There Ike's presidential office, newly daubed a pale green, has been fashioned from a first-floor room at the post office, usually occupied by Town Postmaster Lawrence Oyler, who has moved into the mailroom. Ike's Sherman Adams and staff will work on the second floor, confining presidential business to the post office and respecting Ike's passion for privacy on the farm...
Adams and staff will live at the 30-year-old Gettysburg Hotel, which has spent $20,000 converting an adjoining basketball court into a bright new press headquarters for 60 reporters. In the town's small Annie M. Warner Hospital, one room with an electric-lift bed has been set aside for Ike by his physician. Major General Howard Snyder, in the event of any emergency...