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...phone call came while Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty was dressing. "Dr. Snyder thinks you'd better get down here right away," said the White House telephone operator. Jim Hagerty managed to gulp a glass of milk and two pieces of toast-and rushed off to two sleepless days of a grueling news marathon. While the drama's main actor lay behind the scenes, Jim Hagerty held the center of the stage, almost the only source of public information on the President's condition until Ike was well out of danger...
Americans. Both of you are friendly and outgoing." So, indeed, did Douglas find the average Russian. At his first Caucasian collective farm, Douglas ran into the problem of the vodka toast, decided then and there that he would stick to wine for the duration. When other hosts proudly laid a sheep's head and ear before him, Douglas manfully nibbled some meat from atop the cranium (quite tasty) and the center of the ear (quite gristly). This was only the ceremonial dish in what sometimes stretched into a 21-course meal. After some feasts, entertainment followed, and the guest...
...Everybody seems pleased enough just to meet and differ (the Russians are able to show their people how diligently they are seeking peace). At one party at the pagoda-like French embassy, Malenkov, Mikoyan and Molotov knocked back repartee with Mollet and Pineau. Having been asked by Malenkov to toast collective leadership, Mollet invited his guests to try the buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer to the canapés, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Marshal Zhukov chatted with U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen. Khrushchev...
...exchange of opinions"). No sooner had Khrushchev asserted a pious hope that for the Algerian problem France would "find an appropriate solution in the spirit of our epoch" than he lurched up to the Egyptian ambassador at the huge Kremlin reception that followed, and lifted his glass in a toast "to the Arabs and all people struggling for national independence...
Throughout, Bulganin sat silent. At midnight the dinner broke up, in an atmosphere of sullen ill-feeling. When someone proposed a toast to "our next meeting," Khrushchev gave him a cold stare. Later, he growled: "It is far more difficult to discuss things with you Labor leaders than with the Conservative government of this country...