 The Gettysburg farm provided a few headaches . Democrats chose the amount of time the Eisenhowers spent at the Gettysburg farm as another way to attack him . Paul M. Butler , head of the Democratic National Committee , called him a part @-@ time president due to his many stays in Gettysburg . When his World War II colleague Bernard Montgomery visited the farm , Eisenhower commented to Montgomery ( speaking as military commander to military commander ) that he would have fired a subordinate that would initiate Pickett 's Charge . Many Southerners saw this as disrespect toward Robert E. Lee , and protested . Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the farm in September 1959 , and was " grandfathery " to the Eisenhower grandchildren . David Eisenhower said that Khrushchev was such a nice guy , he ( David ) could become a Communist if he did not know better , causing much embarrassment to the Eisenhowers . 
