THE PRESIDENCY: Heat About a Cold

Beside the President of the U.S., in his green-carpeted White House office one morning last week, stood a small boy leaning easily on aluminum crutches. Billy Jennings, 6, of Trumbull, Conn., the 1955 "Easter Seal Child" of the National Society for Crippled Children & Adults, had come to deliver to the White House the first block of seals. "You're doing all right there, feller," said the President, as he shook Billy's hand. Then he accepted the corsage the boy was to give to Mrs. Eisenhower, and explained why he had come instead: "She'd...

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