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Ike catches up on the news, 1962
Stars and Stripes
May 16, 2019
West Germany, August 1962: Vacationing former President Dwight D. Eisenhower catches up on the news during a train ride through the Ruhr Valley to Cologne. "Ike" and his wife, Mamie, were greeted by throngs of cheering people in the country whose World War II defeat had been engineered in great part by then-Gen. Eisenhower. When they arrived in Cologne, they were greeted by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.