Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said President Eisenhower pointedly in a weekend speech at Gettysburg College: ''The course of appeasement is not only dishonorable. It is the most dangerous one we could pursue. The world paid a high price for the lesson of Munich-but it learned it well...
...history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures as the manuscript of the Gettysburg Address and a lock of George Washington's hair...
...happen to be one of those people who likes cabbage in all its forms"). He welcomed a gathering of Governors calling at the White House to discuss proposed changes in unemployment-insurance laws. He chaired a meeting of the National Security Council. Then he hopped onto a helicopter for Gettysburg...
From his farm, Ike made trips to town for Good Friday services at the First Methodist Church and Easter Sunday services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church, inspected his Aberdeen Angus, worked over speeches scheduled this week before the NATO ministers in Washington and a Gettysburg College convocation. This week, the holiday over, he planned to return to the White House after the annual Easter-egg roll. There, he would dig in to face a returning Congress and the crises which have become almost part of an average day's work...