Jet-Propelled Week

The doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital found Dwight Eisenhower maintaining "an excellent state of health," fully recovered from his- heart attack of September 1955 and his intestinal operation of June 1956. Whereupon Ike took off from his annual physical checkup for the kind of jet-propelled week that proved every medical word.

At his office at 8 o'clock the next morning he spent an hour discussing the Mutual Assistance program with Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Budget Director Percival Brundage. Then he ran an outsized (62 persons) National Security Council meeting, lunched with 51 leaders of the Crusade for Freedom, spent 50 minutes with the British Labor Party's U.S.-baiting, Russian-admiring Aneurin Bevan. He rounded out the day in an economic review with Bob Anderson, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., Economic Advisers Ray Saulnier and Gabriel Hauge.

The President flew west for his Oklahoma speech, got back to Washington at 3 a.m., was up and at his desk again before 8. After a second Security Council meeting Thursday, Ike drove over to tell 1,200 members of the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference his views on planning for emergencies: "The very definition of 'emergency' is that it is unexpected; therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning. So the first thing you do is to take all the plans off the top shelf and throw them out the window and start once more. But if you haven't been planning you can't start to work, intelligently at least."

After a whirlwind of paperwork, Ike flew with Mamie to Augusta at week's end, where--between alternate engagements at the links and in his office--he munched (in the Kelly green coat of the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club) crackers from the "Eisenhower Cracker Barrel," a pine-wooded whimsical memento contributed by Treasury ex-Secretary George Humphrey. Rising to the folksiness of the occasion, Ike said between munches, "There'll be no trouble from here on out for the world."

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