THE PRESIDENCY: Reflections of a Spirit

For months Dwight Eisenhower had worked out details of the U.S. position on Germany and the Berlin crisis with John Foster Dulles and his new Secretary of State, Christian Herter. Last week, while Herter carried out the plans at the foreign ministers' meeting in Geneva (see FOREIGN NEWS), the President plunged into activities on the U.S. domestic front, and the plunge was something to see.

As if signaled by spring's own lively thrust, Ike turned to with evident vigor; his color was well-weathered, ruddy; the lines that ringed his eyes a month...

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