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...President's path of progress was measured in small but significant steps. After four days, the use of narcotics was dropped (although Ike continued to receive anticoagulants, as a precaution against blood clots, and Seconal, a sedative to help him rest). He was gradually "weaned" from the oxygen tent. The periods of dozing slacked off, and the President began to take an alert interest in the outside world. When Press Secretary James Hagerty popped in for a brief visit, Ike asked him how the affairs of the nation were going. "Just fine, Mr. President," said Hagerty. "Everything is fine...
Monday. President Eisenhower ate a good breakfast, his first full meal since the heart attack. His fever subsided to normal. The oxygen tent was removed for brief intervals during the day, and Dr. Paul Dudley White, the famous heart and interview specialist (see below) returned to Boston...
Thursday. The cardiographic checks on the President's heart showed satisfactory healing, and the doctors reduced the daily cardiograms from two to one a day (just before breakfast). Use of the oxygen tent was discontinued altogether. Ike listened to music by Bach, e.g., Air on the G String, Sheep May Safely Graze, which he had requested, and a pretty Army nurse, First Lieut. Lorraine P. Knox, read to him from the Reader's Digest. Mamie Eisenhower's bedside visits became longer and more frequent. The First Lady took her lunch in the President's room...
...several days coronary patients may be kept in an oxygen tent in an effort to reduce strain on the heart and avoid possible complications in the lungs. They also get Dicumarol or a similar anticoagulant which reduces the danger of extension of the thrombus and formation of circulation-blocking clots...
...Heaven. He was the nation's favorite orator, at the peak of his decibels more popular even than silver-tongued William Jennings Bryan. Billy put up tabernacles wherever he went-basilicas of raw boards on the reassuring lines of a barn. The tabernacle had several advantages over the tent-it was safer, the used lumber could be sold, and the noise of hammering in the little towns advertised Sunday's approach for a week in advance. Carloads of sawdust provided an acoustical baffle and a path for sinners to walk forward. On a stage high above the audience...