THE PRESIDENCY: South to Key West

President Eisenhower flew last week from Washington (19°) to Key West, Fla. (72°) for two weeks of work and exercise in the sun. He took with him warm Christmas memories: of a 40-lb. Kansas turkey and an 18-ft. Christmas tree, of his three grandchildren caroling O Come, All Ye Faithful for a crowd of press photographers; of his First Lady, in a red dress, showing off one of the presents she received before church on Christmas morning, a gold-star medallion inscribed on one side "To Mamie" and on the other "For never-failing help since 1916—in calm and in stress,...

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