THE PRESIDENCY: Meeting Deferred

Late last week Dwight Eisenhower set out for a couple of days of relative relaxation at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. The weekend had scarcely begun when news arrived that physical strain resulting from overwork had forced Britain's Sir Winston Churchill (78) to postpone indefinitely plans for a Bermuda meeting with Ike and French Premier Joseph Laniel (see FOREIGN NEWS). President Eisenhower promptly sent off a sympathetic letter to the British Prime Minister. Wrote the President: "I look upon this as only a temporary deferment of our meeting. Your health is of great concern to...

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