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All week long, important callers moved in and out of the Gettysburg office, where two-inch, bulletproof glass in heavy steel frames had just been placed over the windows. Marion Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Budget Director Rowland Hughes went in to talk about the HEW budget. Massachusetts' wise, cowlicked Representative Joe Martin, 71, Republican leader of the House, and California's pin-neat, trim (down 25 Ibs. to 208) William Knowland, minority leader of the Senate, went in for separate conferences on legislation, with incidental attention to politics. Each talked to the President about what Martin called the "headlights" of the Administration's program for the next session of Congress, including highways, school construction, taxes, trade, foreign relations and farm policy.
At week's end the President was out in the open again, carrying a .410 gauge shotgun along a hedgerow, on the hunt for whatever legal game he might flush. Safely behind rode Grandson David Eisenhower in the pony cart.
Last week the President also:
¶ Earmarked $1,500,000 in additional emergency funds (previously earmarked: $1,000,000) for relief and rehabilitation in North Carolina areas hard hit by this year's hurricanes.
¶ Appointed, as Ambassador to Thailand, Career Diplomat Max Waldo Bishop, 47, who succeeds the late John E. Peurifoy.