THE PRESIDENCY: A Day in the City

Like any other vacationer who has to take time out for a trip to the city. Dwight Eisenhower tried to cram a great deal of activity into one 10-hour day last week. When he arrived at New York's La Guardia Field, the President was still drowsy-eyed from his in-flight sleep, but well-rested for the schedule ahead.

He had just finished breakfast in the cream-colored presidential suite of the Waldorf-Astoria when U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge dropped in on his way to the U.N. Then Vice President Nixon arrived for the swearing-in of his...

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