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Next day, resting before Gettysburg, Ike was out back in the autumn sun, putting on the lawn, as if he had never been away...
...White House is not a home, but the Gettysburg farm, 81 miles away, more than fills the bill. Spreading below Seminary Ridge, steeped in the spent passion of a great battle, the farm's 496 acres are a haven where Dwight Eisenhower can peacefully convalesce only 25 minutes by air from the capital...
...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...
...amazed." Monty, who went to Denver in lieu of keeping a year-old date with Ike to tour the Gettysburg battlefield, warmed to his subject: "He's your President, but there are a lot of us in Europe who want to come and see him . . . We value him very highly, terribly highly ... He is one of the very few who . . . visualize this vast problem [defense of the free world] in a global...
...standing position showed that his heart remains normal in size. "The doctors are very pleased," reported Jim Hagerty. One final physical task-stair-climbing-remained before the President qualified for departure, scheduled for Nov. 11, when he will go to Washington, then on to his farm home at Gettysburg. At week's end, he had begun practicing on a two-step exercise stile in his room, preparing for the steps he would soon climb to board his plane, the Columbine-homeward bound...