Dwight Eisenhower Waving from Limousine with Herbert Hoover

(Original Caption) President Eisenhower, waves to well wishers sitting alongside former President Herbert Hoover, at the Des Moines Airport en route to the Iowa State Fair. The Chief Executive stopped off at Des Moines for two hours on his way from Washington to Colorado, where he and Mr. Hoover were going trout fishing. In his address before a gathering of 25,000 people at the Fair, the President declared that France's rejection of EDC, earlier, was a "serious" and "major setback" to American Foreign Policy. He added that the United States would not give up its' attempt to unite the West.