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...shiny new jeep with IKE AND MAMIE stenciled on the hood picked up Secretary of State Christian A. Herter as he climbed down from the Marine Corps helicopter that had whirred him from Washington to Gettysburg. The President met Herter at his farmhouse door, took him inside for a 75-minute discussion on the Western Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting just concluded at Paris. Herter's verdict on the meeting: "Very successful." Next day, he went to Walter Reed Hospital, briefed ailing Predecessor John Foster Dulles...
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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...
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...