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Rain dripped steadily from the north portico of the White House, the Army band sounded ruffles and flourishes as. promptly at noon. President Eisenhower strode on to the porch. Around the necks of seven stiffly uneasy Korean war veterans, the President clasped star-spangled blue ribbons from which hung the nation's highest military award: the Medal of Honor. The language of the citations told of deeds of steel and fire and unyielding spirit...
...seemed to know what to do at an egg roll. Some bowled eggs across the greensward; others tossed them high in the air with occasional disasters. The aid station was busy with minor cuts and bruises. Most people just pressed against the fence, peering eagerly at the south portico. By noon, the grounds were a dreadful mass of mashed eggs, gooey chocolate marshmallow, melting jelly beans and picnic midden. Most unexpected casualty: a press photographer lost both shoes...
When the parade finally passed and the cheers faded away, the new President took his lady by the arm and walked, beaming, up the portico steps and into the White House. For gnarled old John Mays, the doorman who bowed them in, it was an old story: Mamie Eisenhower was the ninth First Lady he had served. For Mamie it was the start of the most exacting, exciting job in a busy career...
Conducted Tour. Harry Truman stayed away from the airport, but was waiting like an old friend on the south portico of the White House when Ike was driven up in a White House Lincoln. Together, the Chief Democrat and the Promising Republican posed for pictures until the President cracked to photographers: "Come on, I've gotto talk business to this man." They talked alone in the President's second-floor study for half an hour, talked another half-hour with Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, Army Secretary Frank Pace and J.C.S. Chairman General Omar Bradley. Then, defying all laws...
...courses, now assigned to Fogg, to Burr Hall. Although changes in location usually involve some confusion, there is still plenty of time to give students advance notice. And if the University still has qualms when the time comes for those exams, it can nail a sign to the Fogg portico announcing the change in unmistakable terms. And when undergraduates are faced with next year's exam period, they should be able to forget about the Fogg Large Room forever...