Eisenhower's would-be country club fallout shelter

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.

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

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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I am such a great fan of Ike — not perfect, of course, but pretty forward thinking for a man of his generation. This just solidifies it: no, lady, unless our country club fallout shelter includes room for the caddies and waitresses and janitors, I want no part of it.
- Mark_Frauenfelder
  
  And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
timquinn

awesome!