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...from Western Europe, the U.S. was partly forearmed; soon after Macmillan landed he was deliberately whisked away from the pressures and pressagentry temptations of Washington to the quiet of President Eisenhower's Catoctin Mountain hideaway, Camp David. There Old Friends Eisenhower and Macmillan (a political adviser on General Ike's staff during the North African campaign in World War II) explored the road to the summit...
...United Nations Council, "Harvard's International Relations Club," has around 150 members, of whom at least 20 are "hard core." Based on an "interest in foreign affairs and a belief that the UN is a good organization," the Council is nonpartisan. In '56, both Stevenson pins and Ike buttons appeared in exec board meetings, and president Eldon Eisenach '60 said that "impartiality is the secret of our success...
Eggheads' for Ike...
Rump Session. At the White House somebody goofed twice in a row on forgetting to invite the Democrats' House Majority Leader John McCormack to two presidential briefings held for congressional leaders. House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck put a bug in the President's ear. Promptly, Ike invited McCormack for a full hour's presidential question-and-answer session...
...Maria Lemus, 47, and his pretty, 32-year-old wife. At National Airport, when President Eisenhower greeted them, at a formal White House dinner, after a Manhattan ticker-tape parade, their smiles came naturally and easily and their moods were clearly carefree. A 45-minute conference with Ike stretched Lemus' smile even wider. Ike told him, said Lemus, that the U.S. was considering "with sympathy" the establishment of U.S. import quotas for coffee that is piled mountain-high in surplus storage warehouses in such exporting nations as his throughout the hemisphere...