The Key West Citizen

Ike Takes Up
Official Work
This Morning

President Suffers
Discomfort In
Wake Of Surgery

By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH

WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower took up a considerable amount of official work today although suffering discomfort in the wake of his emergency operation.

Eisenhower held a 25-minute meeting with key White House staff members, signed 27 bills and other official documents. He also arranged to meet tomorrow in his Walter Reed Hospital room with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

An aide said Eisenhower "looked and sounded quite chipper" and did some personal dictating to his secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman. This included a message of thanks to Mexican President Ruiz Cortines, who telephoned good wishes earlier in the week.

"We did a lot of work this morning," White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said. He spoke to a news conference about an hour before the lunch-time medical bulletin was scheduled to be issued.

The 8 a.m. medical report said the President spent a fairly comfortable night and that his blood pressure and other physical symptoms were about what could be expected at this stage of recovery from an intestinal operation such as he underwent Saturday.

The bills signed ranged from a $424,624,100 appropriation for the Interior Department to private relief bills and other minor measures such as the transfer of a few acres of land in Muskogee, Okla.

In all, Eisenhower signed into law eight bills plus other measures. These included three agreements with other countries Great Britain, New Zealand and the
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Dominican Republic -- relating to the civil uses of atomic energy.

He sent Congress a long list of nominations in the Public Health Service, Coast Guard and Marine Corps. And he signed letters approving the elevation to the rank of minister for Outerbridge Horsey, deputy chief of mission in the American Embassy at Tokyo.

Finally, Eisenhower signed four messages to various private organizations and affixed his signature to two letters to Congress, one each to the Senate and the House reporting on trade fairs held during 1956.

Hagerty said Eisenhower himself made the decision to receive Adenauer at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

The press secretary said no time limit has been set for Adenauer's visit but noted that the German leader, who will be accompanied by Secretary of State Dulles, is paying only a courtesy call.

Hagerty showed considerable irritation at reporters' detailed questions relating to Eisenhower's condition.

"Why the hell don't you wait until tomorrow?" he demanded at one point, when asked how long Adenauer would remain with the President.

At another point, when asked about reports the President is highly annoyed by the drainage tube running through his nostril to his stomach tract, Hagerty exploded that he has said "16,000 times it isn't comfortable." He asked what else reporters would expect him to say.

Eisenhower conferred personally on legislative and other matters with his chief aide, Sherman Adams; his special counsel, Gerald D. Morgan; and the White House staff secretary, Col. Andrew J. Goodpaster.

The President took his morning walking exercise before the staff conference.