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...Ike's decision was a logical outgrowth of the East-West negotiations on banning nuclear tests. With U.S. experts disagreeing among themselves about detection of underground nuclear tests, the U.S. had repeatedly made clear that 1) it could not enter into an agreement to ban underground tests without further research on methods of detection, and 2) this research, to be reliable, would have to include actual nuclear explosions, not just conventional explosions...
From the White House came a "warning," as Ike himself called it, that if "domestic requirements" press him - meaning if Congress passes big-spending bills - he may fly back to Washington before the May summit meeting in Paris comes to an end, leaving Vice President Richard Nixon to sit in for him. "If the Democrats want to make sure that Nixon doesn't go to the summit," said a White House staffer, "then they had better not mess around with spending bills while the President is gone...
...breakfast meeting with 16 G.O.P. Senators, Ike vowed to "leave a heritage of an honest dollar." If necessary, he said, he would even cut short his June visit to Russia to return to Washington and fight for his budget. After posing for press pictures with his breakfast guests on the north portico of the White House, the President turned to Illinois' Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, wagged a finger, and publicly laid down a challenge to congressional Democrats. "Remember." said Ike, "one-third and one - that's the watchword." Translation: to defeat Democratic spending programs, the President...
...Replied Truman: "Why, that's all right, George. I once voted for a Republican myself. He was a friend who served in my outfit in the Army." But it wasn't all right. Allen was as witty as ever, and as expert at the bridge table with Ike as he was at the poker table with Truman. He made Ike feel at home at Burning Tree golf course, has been host to the Eisenhowers at his Palm Springs home. It is no coincidence that Ike bought his farm in Gettysburg next door to Allen's own farm...
Genial George Allen had no comment on Truman's story. Instead, he helicoptered off to Gettysburg with Ike for a weekend of golf...