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"How Could They Do Better?" Ike's luncheon talk was the only serious moment in a high-humored day. At tour's close, the Congressmen lined up in the lee of Ike's barn to be photographed, one by one, shaking hands with the G.O.P.'s most famous member. After all the pictures were taken, someone asked Ike if he contemplated running for the Senate. Replied he, flashing the old Eisenhower grin: "I suppose I should say 'How could they do better?' "
* Guide Eisenhower fluffed once: patting an old cannon, he cited Gettysburg as the first battle in which breech-loading artillery was used. It was not. The British used breechloaders in the Crimea and in the Opium War with China. In the U.S. Civil War, breech-loading guns were in action in 1862 at Seven Pines and during the siege of Vicksburg.