White House Press Secretary James Hagerty was in a first-floor office chatting with Presidential Physician Howard McC. Snyder one morning last week when Dwight Eisenhower entered, dressed in tan slacks, a brown-checkered sports coat and brown loafers. "You going to your office?" asked Hagerty. Replied the President: "Yeah, sure. Let's go."
Seconds later President Eisenhower was back at his desk, starting one of his busier weeks after an upset stomach had laid him low for a day and set statesmen, stock-market investors and plain people around the world to looking anxiously toward...