On toward week's end, the setting changed. The steel-grey Hudson and its heroic cliffs gave place to the Nittany Valley of Pennsylvania, rolling placidly southeast from the low green humps of Bald Eagle Ridge. Skies turned to unspectacular grey, and as the President dressed in gold-tasseled cap and gown walked out onto the campus of Pennsylvania State University to receive an honorary doctorate of laws and address a second graduating class, it was rainingnot a downpour, but a thick, unspectacular drizzle.
If it had gotten much worse, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the President's youngest brother, trusted adviser and president of the university, would...
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