Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treatment in Russia next week. In any event, the Chiefs would not visit as a group (presumably because the U.S. would never put its four top-ranking military men in Russian hands at one time). So went Dwight Eisenhower's first major decision since he entered Walter Reed Hospital for surgery...
Even as Hagerty talked, the President was being readied for the scalpel. He was wheeled past a floor kitchen, past the office of the chief of Walter Reed's obstetrics and gynecology section, into the main corridor and finally into Operating Room 6, directly above the pillared entrance to the hospital. Outside the operating room stood Secret Service Man Rowley. Assigned to carry progress reports from the operating room to the President's anxious family was Dr. Snyder. Mamie, John and Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the President's youngest brother (see EDUCATION), waited in the Williamsburg-green living...
...President slept through most of Saturday-while the eyes of the U.S. and the world focused on his hospital room. In the early afternoon came the fullest explanation of exactly what had happened. Chaperoned by Jim Hagerty, Surgeon Heaton and two other doctors filed into the Walter Reed conference room. Surgeon Heaton, cool and calm in a fresh summer suit, spoke slowly and distinctly, pacing himself by watching the pencils of newsmen. He read a formal report, then used a blackboard diagram to explain further...
...discomfort became gradually worse, Snyder went to the White House to sit up the rest of the night with him. The President vomited repeatedly, and Dr. Snyder now knew that something worse than a stomach upset had hit the President. Calling in Walter Reed's Dr. Francis Pruitt to help, Dr. Snyder deduced by noontime that the President had acute ileitis.. This diagnosis, one of more than a dozen possibilities suggested by the symptoms, could not have been confirmed in the White House bedroom without X rays if Snyder had not been familiar with Ike's previous...