Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the President flew in his new light plane to the Gettysburg farm to join Mamie, who moved there June 10 after the official Washington social season...
Howard's final surprise was a personal telephone call from President Eisenhower, weekending at his Gettysburg farm. Said Ike: "I gathered you were married to a newspaper 50 years ago and have been married to it ever since. There have been a lot of products from it." Said Roy Howard: "I wish to the Lord you were where I am. I've been lied to by everyone in this room." "Roy," the President reminisced, "do you realize it has been 20 years since we were on that boat?" (i.e., the President Coolidge, when Ike, a major...
...make any difference whom the Republicans nominate; the convention won't be over in time for the election." At times, the President frightens party leaders by acting as if he is determined to retire to his farm at Gettysburg, and at other times he brings hope to their hearts...
...election, he would like to retire. But the most likely prospect is that circumstances, including the lack of a likely successor and the pleas of G.O.P. leaders, will cause him to run again. Said a knowing Republican last week: "He just could not take it-sitting up there in Gettysburg and watching Adlai Stevenson or Averell Harriman unraveling everything he's just got started...
Impressed by the danger, Ike stopped complaining about the Secret Service. When the service insisted on closing a tourist observation tower atop Cemetery Ridge on the Gettysburg Battlefield whenever he is at the farm, he made no objection. A marksman, standing on the tower with a high-powered rifle, could shoot anyone on the Eisenhower farm...