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...sent a personal letter marking the 38th Soviet national anniversary. ¶Significantly omitting a laborious presidential task of personally receiving new foreign emissaries, his staff announced routine receipt of accreditations for the new Ambassadors of Lebanon, Laos, Luxembourg, Iceland and Pakistan. ¶Through Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. he conveyed a plea for restraint in the Middle East (see below). ¶With "deepest regret," he accepted the resignation of Bernard M. Shanley, White House appointment secretary and former presidential counsel, who left to "resolve some of my pressing personal problems...
Four hours and 50 minutes after takeoff, the Columbine landed at Washington National Airport. Beaming as he helped Mamie down the ramp, Ike waved at dozens of assembled Government officials, shook hands warmly with Vice President Nixon and onetime President Herbert Hoover, roundly bussed his son John's wife Barbara. Then, turning to the microphone at the ramp's foot, he said...
...above. Facing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the panorama of Washington beyond it stood a white-haired old man in a black Chesterfield coat. His face was pink, and in his right hand he held a black felt hat over his heart. As the anthem ended, Herbert Hoover, 81, stepped forward to meet an Army sergeant holding a large wreath of yellow chrysanthemums. He took the flowers and firmly laid them against the tomb, directly under the inscription: HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER
Prochnow, who succeeds Samuel Waugh (now president of the Export-Import Bank), will help handle foreign aid, trade and tariff negotiations, and programs to stimulate overseas investments. He got off to a flying start: while his nomination was in the works, he left with Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr. for a flying tour of trouble spots in the Far East. By the time his appointment was duly approved and signed by the President, convalescing in Denver, Prochnow was in Tokyo talking with Japan's top officials...
...Greatest Force." Late in August Prochnow got a telephone call from Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr., asking him to come to Washington to see Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, whom he had never met. He found Dulles a relaxed, amiable host, who appeared to want to talk mostly about religion. "He seemed to know all about my church work," says Prochnow, who, like Dulles, is a prominent Presbyterian layman...