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...hour or two for portraitists-until last month. When TIME commissioned famed Realist Andrew Wyeth to paint the President, both artist and subject hesitated momentarily. Wyeth, a deliberate and profoundly emotional artist, was naturally a bit overawed by the assignment. The President, for his part, was relaxing at Gettysburg, gathering his forces for his momentous and precedent-shattering visit to Europe. But TIME and mutual admiration brought the two together to create an important addition to the picture gallery of American history...
Inspired by the success of President Eisenhower's recent television appeal for a strong law to fight labor racketeering, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week marched into Gettysburg, returned with a promise that Ike would plow into the multi-billion-dollar farm-subsidy scandal. Before Congress reconvenes next January, Benson said, the President will go on television with a direct appeal for public support of Benson's proposals to end the wheat surplus for which taxpayers pay dearly...
...sweep aside the cold war's barriers by trading visits with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. The chatter about the New Eisenhower came during an Ike week that was dramatic in several other ways. The President was in his usual top form at his press conference, held in a converted Gettysburg gymnasium. On Capitol Hill, an attempt to override an Eisenhower veto of an inflated housing bill failed miserably and all but nailed down a victory for Ike in his long, steady fight to balance the U.S. budget. After the year's most dramatic legislative battle, when the U.S. House...
...positions of months ago, the seemingly spontaneous New Eisenhower line, especially in the U.S. press, was a journalistic baffler, though it did make for some bright writing and the appearance of punditic discovery. "One evidence of the change," wrote the Washington Evening Star's Garnett Horner from Gettysburg, "is the very fact that he held a news conference here at all yesterday." The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston played a variation on the New Ike theme: "What appeared was not really 'a new Ike' at all, but a new reflection of that...
...half block between the Gettysburg Hotel and the old gymnasium, which had been converted into an auditorium, was lined with people-women in shorts, men with straw hats, kids with sunburned faces. Between them, smiling to their applause, moved the President of the U.S., on his way to the auditorium for his weekly press conference. Uppermost in Ike's mind: the forthcoming visit to the U.S. of Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said the President to the 95 newsmen at the press conference: "I would hope for a bettering of the atmosphere between the East and the West...