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I took a little break from work today went up to the 8th floor and toured the
room President Eisenhower made a temporary Oval Office in 1955. He was vacationing at his in-laws when he had a heart attack. When I'm not working in a clinic, my office is in an administrative building that used to be an
Army Hospital. Eisenhower spent about 2 months in the hospital recovering. On the tour there are copies of the notes the Secret Service kept "President Eisenhower came into the sitting area to look at the goldfish."
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I'm not quite sure why they had to keep that detailed notes of the President's where-abouts. The other fact I found amusing was that his wife had them bring her a pink toilet seat from Washington because there weren't any in Colorado.
Note: The B&W photo is from the 1950's and the color is the restored room.
Another interesting fact: Presidential candidate John Kerry was born in the hospital in 1943 while his father was being treated for tuberculosis.