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...across the continental divide for two days of trout fishing at a ranch owned by two Denver friends. Mortgage Banker Aksel Nielsen and Manufacturer Carl Norgren, near little (pop. 300) Fraser, Colo. Most of the town was waiting in Fraser's dusty main street to see Ike and Hoover. As Ike stepped out of his car, a man grabbed his hand and said: "Hi, Ike. I'm Curtis Brewer from Abilene." "Well, for goodness sake," said Ike, "how are you, and how's your brother...
...ranch a mile down the road, Ike barely had his coat off before he was in the kitchen starting on his big project: a two-day vegetable soup. Hoover, an accomplished fly-fisherman who does not share Ike's love of cooking, spent more time wading in shallow St. Louis Creek. Next day reporters were allowed on the ranch to watch the President sign the social security bill and invited to stick around and watch him broil a dozen thick steaks on an outdoor grill. Hoover ambled up to the grill. As usual, he was grimly hanging onto...
Some reporters complained that they were not getting enough personal details about Ike's vacation. Said Hoover: "Thirty years ago we used to believe that there were only two occasions in which the American people have regard for the privacy of the President-in prayer and fishing . . . The press no longer has any respect for the privacy of the President in his fishing. That's one of the degenerations of the last 30 years." Asked a reporter: "Are you blaming this degeneration on the Democrats?"Hoover answered: "I'm not doing any politicking at the moment." When...
This week, after a brief vacation at a La Jolla, Calif, resort (where his visit coincided, as it did last year, with that of J. Edgar Hoover), Joe McCarthy returned to Washington to face the Watkins investigation of his past deeds, and to hear the Mundt committee's verdict on his scrap with the Army. The verdict was not clear...
...Hoover Jr. was born in London in 1903. One of his earliest memories is of riding into an Australian town with his father on a wagon loaded with freshly mined gold. He graduated from his father's university, Stanford, in 1925, and from Harvard's School of Business Administration, became an oil-exploration engineer, worked for the governments of Iran, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil. He founded the United Geophysical Co. in Pasadena and stayed on as president after it was bought out by Union Oil of California. He was also an airline engineer (with Western Air Express...