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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Ike Wages War On A Golf Course Tree (1956)
Description: **It's the Radiotopia fundraiser! We can only make this show with your support. Give now and help support This Day and all the independent shows at Radiotopia. Thank you! https://www.radiotopia.fm/donate**It's December 21th. This day in 1956, President Eisenhower is on his annual retreat to Augusta National golf course in Georgia -- and he is waging a vendetta against a pine tree that keeps getting in the way of his shots.Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss why Ike was so obsessed with this tree, how he went to great lengths to get...