Months of work and worry had pulled the President's nerves tighter than a banjo player's E string. The first few days in Denver were as bad as Washington.
Card Game. Ike's first chore was a nationwide television broadcast. He spent two days with speechwriters, laboriously polishing a text he had no intention of using. One day last week, an hour before the broadcast, the President arrived at a side door of Denver's KLZ. In the main studio, Ike's TV Adviser Robert Montgomery checked and rechecked equipment and staging. Fifteen minutes before air time,...
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