Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week President Eisenhower stepped into a small, twin-engined, blue-and-white airplane at National Airport and took off. Thirty-two minutes later, the trim little craft sat down on the 2,200-ft. grass runway at Gettysburg, Pa. After a pleasant tour of his farm, the President flew home in just 22 minutes...
...first time that the President of the U.S. had.* In the past the Secret Service has insisted that presidential planes have at least four engines. But the practicality and convenience of a light plane for short trips was obvious. By car, the round trip to Gettysburg from Washington takes four hours, and the runways at the local airport will not accommodate the big four-engined Columbine. After months of study and testing, the Secret Service finally agreed to let Ike ride in a two-engined craft...
...long after the first reports of Chou's statement reached Washington, President Eisenhower was on the telephone from his farm in Gettysburg with Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (Secretary John Foster Dulles was at his island retreat in Lake Ontario.) By nightfall, the State Department had issued a reply: "The United States always welcomes any efforts, if sincere, to bring peace to the world. In the Formosa region we have an ally in the Free Republic of China and, of course, the United States would insist on Free China participating as an equal in any discussions concerning...
...Daughters were ready with a whole tableful of surprise gifts for the Eisenhowers, mostly the products of D.A.R. handicraft projects. When Presidential Aide Bernard Shanley brought regrets that the President (who was busy at the White House) and the First Lady (who was at the Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg) could not come, there was a moment of silence, and then only a barely polite smattering of applause. Sniffed President General Gertrude S. Carraway: "We've been looking for him to come since last January...
...Attended Easter services at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, while Mrs. Eisenhower remained at Gettysburg...