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...Donald, 9. Fine is deeply devoted to the boys, and they to him. One of the reasons for Fine's affection for General MacArthur is supposed to be the attention the general paid to the boys during a visit. Eisenhower was well briefed on this matter. At the Gettysburg picnic Ike met the boys, and asked Donald...
...Pennsylvania. On his plane heading for his meeting with the Pennsylvania delegation, Ike breakfasted off a tray balanced on a pillow on his lap, then went forward and sat in the pilot's seat. At Harrisburg, Governor John Fine welcomed him. At his farm three miles from Gettysburg, Ike had a happy reunion with his old friend Arthur Nevins, a retired brigadier general who runs the place (189 acres, twelve Holsteins, ten Guernseys, 500 chickens) while Ike is away. From New York Ike had phoned: "I'm coming down for a picnic. Don't sell the milk...
...about? "Practical politics," said Fine, obviously pleased with all this. "I never discuss anything else but." Had he made any commitments? None. But he had agreed to Ike's suggestion that Pennsylvania's 70 delegates and 70 alternates get together this week at the Eisenhower farm outside Gettysburg, Pa. for a picnic. Who will give the party? "Eisenhower," said Fine firmly. But there wouldn't be any announcement then on how the Pennsylvania delegation stands. The delegates were going to meet with Senator Taft later. Fine didn't know just when he would commit himself...
...charm. Mamie won't be an Eleanor. She isn't a girl who wants publicity. I don't think she's ever made a speech. In a way, she'd just as soon go back to Denver or the general's farm at Gettysburg. Just the same, Mamie will never be stuffy...
...played on paper. Gradually, as his vocabulary increased, he began to explore territory beyond "How are you today?" and "Is your cold better?" He wanted to know about Alexander Graham Bell, Gandhi and the U.N. In time, he read Carl Sandburg's Abe Lincoln Grows Up, learned the Gettysburg Address, and Mrs. Vining "entertained hopes that some day at a diplomatic dinner, he would be able to dazzle the American Ambassador by an apt quotation." By the time Mrs. Vining's four years were up, the Prince was reading Pilgrim's Progress, could chatter away fluently...