Bill Geerhart says: “This is a bizarre little chapter from Eisenhower’s post-presidency that I have documented. It concerns him being asked to participate in a community fallout shelter at his elite winter home at a country club. It also features an unlikely cameo from the white guy who did the black voice of Amos on Amos and Andy.”
Here is a sample line:
On one such occasion, according to Ms. Hunt, the former president had shot a golf ball through their window and the Jones’s maid promptly gave the architect of the Normandy invasion an earful when he tried to retrieve it.
Eisenhower’s would-be country club fallout shelter
Bonus:
Dwight D Eisenhower marvels at the peanut butter grinder at Magee’s at LA’s Farmers Market twitter.com/Frauenfelder/s…
— Mark Frauenfelder (@Frauenfelder) February 18, 2012