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...South America, Ike will touch down in Brazil (Feb. 23-26), Argentina (Feb. 26-29), Chile (Feb. 29-March 2) and Uruguay (March 2-3). Noticeably absent from the itinerary are Peru and Venezuela, where Communist-led mobs heckled and attacked Vice President Nixon on his tour (TIME, May 19, 1958 et seq.); the White House diplomatically pointed out that a visit to Peru would also entail a stop-off in neighboring Ecuador, where the capital of Quito is too high (9.350 ft. above sea level) for a man with the President's heart history...
Mamie Eisenhower, who avoids flying when she can, will go along on the South American trip. Ike will also take his brother Milton, president of Johns Hopkins University and his adviser on Latin America, five members of the Eisenhower-appointed National Advisory Committee on Inter-American Affairs, Secretary of State Christian Herter, and Assistant Secretary of State (for Inter-American Affairs) Roy Rubottom...
...Jewel." Meanwhile, the President made himself at home in Washington. Minutes after landing from Augusta, he turned up at the Mayflower Hotel, where Senate Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen was celebrating his 64th birthday. "By golly," pealed Dirksen as he and Democrat Lyndon Johnson greeted Ike, "you're a jewel to come...
Johnson then took Ike on one arm, Dirksen on the other, led them into the Chinese Room for the festivities. The President stayed and chatted for about 20 minutes-part of it in earnest conversation with Vice President Nixon and Secretary of Labor James Mitchell (subject: steel)-greeted Mrs. David McDonald, wife of the steelworkers' union boss. (Cooed Rosemary McDonald to Pat Nixon: "The settlement was our loveliest anniversary present...
...Eisenhower at the White House. McDonald apparently convinced the President that management's terms were so tough that the union would have to go out on strike again when the 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction ran out on Jan. 26. Bent on preventing a renewal of the strike, Ike summoned Vice President Nixon and Secretary Mitchell to the White House shortly before he left on his around-the-world tour, instructed them to push hard to get a settlement...