THE PRESIDENCY: Double Attack

Standing in the sun in the White House rose garden, about 100 delegates to the 1957 National Council of the League of Women Voters waited to hear some customary words of greeting from the President of the U.S. But Ike, having read earlier the women's statement of principles, e.g., in favor of international economic development, suddenly decided that "this looks like a swell time" to say some things of weight.

Popping out of the French doors leading from his office to the garden, Ike radiated the good effects of his 13-day vacation in Augusta, Ga. He jovially accepted...

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