TAILIEUCHUNG - Don't Ask What I Shot: How President Eisenhower’s Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950’s America

“Golf . . . is a sport in which the whole American family can participate--fathers and mothers, sons and daughters alike. It offers healthy respite from daily toil, refreshment of body and mind.” --President Dwight D. Eisenhower On January 24, 1953, four days after his inauguration, the New York Times reported that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had been spotted on the White House lawn practicing his short irons in the direction of the Washington Monument. This image of “The Golfing General” was one that the American public quickly became accustomed to, as Eisenhower is said to have played nearly 800 rounds during. | LOVE Or GOLE HELPED SHAPE 1950s AMERICA n CATHERINE M. LEWIS w II hiimimimimimmiimimimimml 44 Don t Ask What I Shot HOW EISENHOWER S LOVE OF GOLF HELPED SHAPE 1950s AMERICA CATHERINE M. LEWIS Me Grew New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid MexicoCity Milan New Delhi Sanjuan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto HrtríUixí Hj t rmrn Copyright 2007 by Catherine M. Lewis. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976 no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-151024-9 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title 0-07-148570-8. All trade marks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name we use names in an editorial fashion only and to the benefit of the trademark owner with no intention of infringement of the trademark where such designations appear in this book they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hi 11 eBooks are avai table at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promoti ons or for use in corporate training programs. For more information please contact George Hoare Special Sales at george_hoare@ or 212 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. McGraw-Hill and its licensors reserve all tights in and to the work. Use of this work is subject to these terms. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the right to store and retrieve one copy of the work you may not decompile disassemble reverse engineer reproduce modify create derivative works based upon transmit distribute disseminate sell publish or sublicense the work or any part of it without McGraw-Hill s prior consent. You may use the work for your own noncommercial and .

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