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...eighth floor, permitted out of bed any time except during his two-hour afternoon rest. Pushing its control button i, he received some visitors in "my electric chair," a fancy convalescent device that raised and lowered his back and legs or gently oscillated. After 15-minute morning huddles with Sherman Adams, he received official callers, among them Postmaster General Summerfield and Labor Secretary Mitchell. Summerfield later told reporters that he had talked to the President about legislation to raise first-class mail rates to 4?, airmail...
...Economic Advisers, and Gabriel Hauge, the President's personal economic adviser, met with Ike and got his approval of a domestic Point 4 program (see above). One morning the President worked for 45 minutes on a draft of his 1956 State of the Union message, with Presidential Assistants Sherman Adams and "Jerry" Persons and Speechwriter Kevin McCann. Each day he read Secretary Dulles' reports from Geneva. The number of documents signed by the President increased from a trickle of papers of top importance to an almost-normal flow...
...Eisenhower instructed Dr. Howard Snyder: "You tell Jim for me to take over." White House Press Secretary James C. (for Campbell) Hagerty. who had been vacationing at home in Washington, landed at Lowry Air Force Base that evening and took over. For the next seven days, until Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams arrived in Denver, Jim Hagerty was the only official link between the stricken President and the worried world...
Several times during the week the President talked business with other officials. Attorney General Brownell and Security Chief Dillon Anderson stopped in for brief appointments. Often, in the late afternoon, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams came in with some papers for Ike to sign. For the second time in nine days, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent a 25-minute period at Ike's bedside. When Dulles arrived, Ike promptly ordered him to sign his "guest book": a yellow toy dog that he had received for his birthday. Then the two got down to the business at hand: last...
...That's All I Want." Although he is much less in the public eye than some other members of the Administration team, e.g., Vice President Nixon and Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams (TIME, Oct. 17), George Humphrey has a wide influence that touches about every phase of government. Because military planning and foreign policy have such a deep effect on the U.S. budget, Humphrey sits as a key member of the National Security Council...