THE PRESIDENCY: Farewell to Colorado

Vacations, as every vacationer knows, have a way of seeming all too brief, and the President's was no exception. As he climbed aboard the presidential plane, the Columbine, at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base last week, Ike's last words were: "Boy, how I hate to go!"

Several shades tanner and half an inch slimmer in the waist than when he left Washington six weeks before, the President was "delighted" with his stay in Colorado and, according to his physician, "never felt better." But his vacation had been only a partial escape from the cares and chores of office. During the...

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