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...worked alone over the drafts of two major speeches he will deliver to the Indian Parliament in New Delhi and at the opening of the U.S. exhibit at New Delhi's World Agricultural Fair. Draft writer: Kevin McCann, president of Ohio's Defiance College and author of Ike's 1952 campaign biography, Man from Abilene. The theme was the theme that led the President to seek a second term: the quest for peace and for the goals that free nations share and should share. He skipped Thanksgiving services (Mamie went on alone to the National Presbyterian Church...
...Giovanni Gronchi; conference with Italy's Premier Antonio Segni (who has long complained privately that the U.S. takes loyal ally Italy for granted); round of official lurches and dinners (nothing more formal than black tie on the whole trip); private Sunday audience with Pope John XXIII, after which Ike will leave the Vatican by helicopter for the airport...
...parts, including a complete, ready-to-install jet engine. The two cargo planes are assigned a leapfrogging schedule that will keep one of them always one stop ahead of the President. Eight specially trained Air Force police will guard all the planes on the ground. To keep watch as Ike flies over the sea is a string of preassigned Navy vessels patrolling the Atlantic at 500-mile intervals...
...Belts. The President's flying White House is rigged for the best in comfort and communications. The President himself usually takes off facing forward at a desk in his private compartment; at his side is an ivory-colored telephone that is hooked into a single-sideband radio, enabling Ike to talk to any spot in the world. For classified conversations, his radio operator uses a radio-teletype which scrambles messages that can only be unscrambled at a single receiving point. Also aboard: reclining chairs, sofa beds, tape player, hifi, two galleys, two astrodomes...
...Ike's ten crewmen-eight of whom have flown together for at least six years-rightly feel that their assignments are the best in the Air Force, even if they sometimes have to shell out some of their own money on some presidential trips to cover their meager $12-$18 per diem allowance. Trim, reserved Bill Draper is a thoroughgoing professional, a World War II Air Corps transport pilot flying the "fireball run" between Miami and India, personal pilot for President Eisenhower since 1950, when Ike was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Copilot is Iowa-born...