Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-11
Eisenhower Rejects
Tour for Joint Chiefs

heart attack forced a postpone
ment last September.
Although the surgeons attend
ing him have said they can see
no reason why he should not go
ahead with his plans for a Sec
ond term, there was no official
word from the President himself
on that. Republican leaders gen.
orally expect he will stay in the
race.
A poll of IA newsmen who reg
ularly cover the White House,
taken in the emergency press
room at Walter Reed early to-
day. showed II believe the Presi-
dent still will be the Republican
candidate in November, while
three think he will withdraw.
OfficiaI Taboo on Subject.
The second term question was
taboo for any official discussion
around the emergency White
House headquarters at Walter
Reed. Mr.. Hagerty made that
plain when newsmen tried to
sound him out on it yesterday.
Asked specifically if you think
that his current illness will have
any effect on his decision to
run for reelection" Mr.. Hagerty
replied:
Il have just one thought in
my mind, and that is to get the
President of the United States
out of the hospital. I have not
given any thought to anything
else
The question of whether this
new illness might affect his
second-term plans arises in theI
public mind partly because of
some OF the Presidents own
words after recovering from his
heart attack of last fall and
making himself available for
denomination.
He told a news conference on
March 7 that any time he be-
lieved his organic fitness" had
failed to the point of making
him unable to perform his job
he would not be avail
able for it.
Bothered for Years
Mr.. Eisenhower may we'll con-
slider, from what his doctors say
that his organic fitness" is bet
ter instead of worse as a result
of his operation. He had been
bothered off and on by what the
doctors call ileitis-inflamation
of the lower portion of the small
inteStines = for years, but it'll
never had got to the point Of al
persistent obstruction before he
was stricken Friday.
Wearing his tan pajamas and
a maroon robe, the President
walked yesterday to an easy
chair and back with two male
attendants holding his elbows to
steady him. They were M/Sergt.
j. w. Teaney and Sergt. 1/c
v. j. Jacavone of the Walter
Reed staff.
For the walk. a tube leading
through the Presidents nose
down into his stomach was dis
from suction APP
paratus beside his bed. The tube
is used to keep the stomach and
the intestinal tract drained,
helping to prevent nausea, until
the normal castro intestinal
procedure starts functioning, Mr..
Hagerty said.
Mr.. Eisenhower still was being
fed intravenously. Mr.. Hagerty
said he didn't like it. 1t will be
tomorrow or next day before the
doctors will let him take food |
BY mouth. and then only liquids. |
Sits Up in Chair
Between his walks from and
back to his bed yesterday morn
ing, the President sat in an arm
chair with his legs resting on an
ottoman and did deep-breathing
Mr.. Hagerty said his
doctors wanted to make sure thelI
President exercised all sections
Of his lungs.
Mrs. Eisenhower watched her
husband do his walking and
lung-exercising. Others in the
room include his brother, Milton
Eisenhower. and Drs. Snyder,
Heaton and Ravdin.
Some doctor, usually a Walter
Reed staff man. was on duty att
all times in the Presidents suite.
along with a nurse and an at
tendant.
In response to questions, Mr..
said no infection had
developed in the Presidents
and his doctors saw
no reason to expect any.
The Press Secretary said Mr..
Eisenhower slept of and on dur
ing the day. Several times, too,
both the head and foot of his
bed were elevated to put his