EISENHOWER’S RETURN

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28450, 3 December 1957, Page 15

EISENHOWER’S RETURN

Back At White House Today (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) GETTYSBURG (Pennsylvania), December 2. President Eisenhower will return to Washington today after a three-day stay at his farm recuperating from the mild stroke he suffered last Monday. The White House spokesman, Mr James Hagerty, said that.

barring an unfavourable medical report, the President would motor back to the White House some time in the morning. He hoped to attend a Cabinet meeting at the White House in the afternoon. In Mr Hagerty’s most recent statement on the President’s condition he said that Mr Eisenhower’s progress continued to be excellent.

Mr Hagerty said that he still did not know whether the President would attend a bipartisan White House briefing session for Congressional leaders of both parties on Tuesday. Questions about the Presidefat’s official activities would have to be answered on a day-to-day basis. Mr Hagerty said that he did not know whether Mr Eisenhower’s return to Washington signalled the start of daily visits to his office. Mr Eisenhower’s physicians had not changed their judgment that it would be several weeks before the President could resume anything like the rapid pace forced on him recently by the Soviet Union’s missiles and space successes.

Mr Hagerty said he still did not know if Mr Eisenhower would go to Paris to attend the N.A.T.O. summit conference opening on December 16.