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President and Mrs Eisenhower stand on a platform at the lower right to speak to the citizens of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who had turned out to greet him. Eisenhower planned an extended visit to his farm located there to recover from his recent heart attack.
November 14, 1955
Smith, A. Merriman, 1913-1970 (photographer)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower and Smith Children
1959
President Eisenhower greets the children of reporter Merriman Smith at his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The photograph is undated, but as Christian Herter is riding with Eisenhower and he beca...
Covering the President
1956
Rear view of a parade of reporters in open cars following President Eisenhower on a rural road in Iowa. The President is standing in an open car at the right.
Merriman Smith and Dayton Moore
1953
Merriman Smith, perched on a table with Dayton Moore in the press lounge. They are two correspondents who covered the White House.
Merriman Smith
1969
Merriman Smith, who covered the presidents from Roosevelt to Nixon for United Press International, in a characteristic reporter's pose in front of a typewriter in the Press Room in San Clemente.
President Lyndon Johnson and the Press
1966
President Lyndon Johnson stands at a podium to field a reporter's question at a press conference, probably at the Texas White House.
Vietnam Meeting
December 23, 1967
President Lyndon Johnson with General William Westmoreland and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in Vietnam.
