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Five minutes after Ike arrived at Camp David from Gettysburg 25 miles away, the first of three big helicopters bearing National Security Council members rattled crankily overhead. Yawing in the gusty grey air over the pistachio-green buildings in the Maryland woods, it plumped down on the muddy baseball field. John Foster
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...
...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...