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Three days later, in time to reach Washington for Secretary Dulles' 68th birthday party, Ike and Mamie boarded the Columbine III at Moultrie's Spence Field. As Ike walked up the ramp to the airplane, a woman in the watching crowd shouted, "Now stand right there, and tell us you're going to run." For a moment Ike hesitated and newsmen gawked. Then he burst into laughter and ducked inside...
Present plans call for the bridge to be approximately 180 feet long, with the walking ramp ten feet wide. It will be constructed of steel, concrete, and red brick...
Twenty steps up to the ninth floor, 20 down: Ike trained for the Columbine's 19-step ramp. When Guatemalan President Castillo Armas arrived to visit Ike, the Washington Post and Times Herald's Eddie Folliard went along, too. Later Folliard told the press corps: "It's obvious that he's lost weight, as the doctors wanted him to. He looks completely lean. His color is good. He has a ruddy look. His eyes seem clear. He was animated, as he always has been, a man in motion . . . lean and sharp...
...vanished behind cold grey mist as Ike followed Mamie up the Columbine's ramp. Halfway, he turned, doffed his hat and, in the raw wind, addressed well-wishers: "My friends, again it is time for Mrs. Eisenhower and me to say good bye to Denver after a summer's stay. This time we leave under somewhat unusual circumstances. As you know, I have spent some time in the hospital. Such a time is not wholly a loss...
Four hours and 50 minutes after takeoff, the Columbine landed at Washington National Airport. Beaming as he helped Mamie down the ramp, Ike waved at dozens of assembled Government officials, shook hands warmly with Vice President Nixon and onetime President Herbert Hoover, roundly bussed his son John's wife Barbara. Then, turning to the microphone at the ramp's foot, he said...