Eisenhower’s Negro caddy was too slow.

Ike CaddyKaren Brinkman,
New York City, NY.

Cleaning out my mother’s attic, I came across a vase wrapped in a newspaper page from 1957. This sentence was in a short article about the firing of “Cemetery” Perteet, President Eisenhower’s long time golf caddy.

Learn more about Karen’s 6 words in The Milwaukee Journal


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