Word: gronchi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour if I would try to express what I really believe about it." There was a nervous laugh in the room and a whispered "Please don't." After three minutes on the Red Cross, Ike spent a minute talking about the visit of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Signora Gronchi. Then he wanted "to mention two bills that are before Congress," the farm program and the Upper Colorado River development bill. By that time, under the glare of the television lights, the temperature in the room was rising and the pressure on the reporters had risen...
...friendly-looking man behind the thick-lensed glasses peered around him at the triumphal archway, the red, white, and green Italian flags, the guards of honor, the crowds, the bands, the bannered words of welcome: BENVENUTO AL PRESIDENTE GRONCHI. Along Pennsylvania Avenue he rode at a stately pace, surrounded by the trappings accorded only to the nation's most distinguished visitors, amid the resounding music of military bands. At the White House President Eisenhower was waiting on the steps. "So good to see you," Eisenhower greeted his visitor. "It is the first time an Italian President has visited this...
...Discus Thrower. For four days last week the leaders of the U.S. greeted Giovanni Gronchi with unusual warmth and attention. Gronchi had consultations with Eisenhower, dined and wined with Dulles and Nixon, talked international labor with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany. Guards of honor presented arms when Gronchi laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Gallery of Art stayed open after closing time to accommodate Gronchi's handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico...
...rose garden of the White House, Gronchi presented to Eisenhower a bronze reproduction of The Discus Thrower and a grey granite pillar surmounted by a white marble capital. In thanks, Eisenhower said: "As you know, we have millions of citizens of Italian derivation...
...advisers describes Gronchi's politics as New Dealism with a strong admixture of Roman Catholic liberal thought. He believes that to fight Communism, the Christian Democrats must get nearer the working class and present a progressive program which Nenni's fellow travelers would be compelled to support. He has never urged, say his advisers, that Nenni's Socialists be brought into government...