Wanting to participate in some way he, and one of his best friend Tommy Hodges, entered a contest for a spot on the USO tour.
Robert and Tommy won the Augusta contest and secured a spot for the finals in New York City.
This was at the Augusta National Golf Club one evening after entertaining the President, Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts after dinner.
The family still has a treasured signed photograph of Ike and Mamie in front of their Augusta National Cabin.
He won many awards down through the years and took many famous photographs, with one of his best-known that of Elvis Presley in an alley before a 1956 concert in Bell Auditorium in Augusta.