Fox and Eisenhower met in 1920 at Camp Meade. Patton introduces the two men to each other. Conner and his wife are good friends with Mamie and Eisenhower, the two families move to the Panama Canal Zone together shortly after Icky gets scarlet fever and dies. It is Fox Conner who helps Eisenhower overcome the death of his, then only son, by giving him something else to focus on.