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Vacation Calls Ike And Cabinet Members Answer
President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon led a quick vacation scramble as several cabinet members and top officials departed Washington. Dulles planned a Manila trip while Humprhey, Folson, Burgess, and Overby left or prepared to leave. Other leaders including Wilson, Anderson, Stevens, Thomas, Talbott, Ellsworth, Weeks, Benson, McKay, Mitchell, and Hobby all pursued or planned breaks, with Hobby noting a Camp David outing as her only vacation.
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Peter Edson
NEA
Washington
Eisenhower
Denver
Nixon
Senate
V.P
Maine
Cincinnati
John Foster Dulles
Duck Island
St. Lawrence
Bureauland
Dutles
Manila
Treasury
Ibag
George M. Humphrey
Hall
Cleveland
Ohio
Marion B. Folson
W. Randolph Burgess
Elbert P. Tuttle
Alabama
Andrew N. Overby
Pentagon
Defense
C.E. Wilson
C.E. Wilson Got Out of Town Before the President. He and Mrs. Wilson
Bloomfield Hills
Mich
Robert B. Anderson
Army
Robert T. Stevens
Navy
Charles S. Thomas
Great Falls
Ida
Los Angeles
California
Air Force
Harold E. Talbott
South Hampton
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Arthur Summerfield
Sinclair Weeks
Lancaster
N.H
Ezra ‘Yatt Benson
Rananwa
aLnour Luu
Midwest
Alaska
Douglas McKay
Oregon
James P. Mitchell
Spring Lake
Nat
Mitchell
Health, Education