<--PREV Doc #16  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #18 Document #17; February 3, 1953 To Millicent McIntosh Series: EM, AWF, Name Series: Columbia The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part I: Charting a New Course; January 1953 to April 1953 Chapter 1: Developing a spirit of teamwork   Dear President McIntosh: My grateful thanks for your fine letter, written on the 16th.1 Just why I have not seen it before this afternoon I cannot say--but that is the case. In any event, I want to assure you that I was very conscious of missing you to say "goodbye" in the brief hours I had on the Columbia campus. This truly disappointed me because I have a very warm spot in my heart for Barnard College, to say nothing for the wonderful work you have done there. Your courage and kindness were always an inspiration to me. Mrs. Eisenhower and I miss our Columbia associates very much indeed. We seem always to be tackling some new and strange job--so in that respect this assignment seems just a continuation of our experiences of the past many years. But, of course, in one very definite sense it is quite different. This is the isolation that is almost inescapably forced upon an individual who lives in the particular glare of publicity that seems to have its center at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We cannot often see our friends; for that reason they are possibly in our hearts and minds even more vividly than they would be normally. With warm greetings to you and your wonderful family, in which Mamie joins me, Sincerely P.S. Mamie and I were really flattered by the little group of Barnard students coming to serenade us on one of the holiday evenings!2 1 McIntosh, who was president of Barnard College, in New York City, had written a farewell letter to Eisenhower when he officially departed from Columbia University (letter in AWF/N: Columbia Corr.). "Faculty, trustees and students alike were aware of your generosity to us and of the kindly interest you took in all Barnard's affairs," McIntosh said. For background on McIntosh and fund-raising for Barnard, the women's college affiliate of Columbia, see Galambos, Columbia University, nos. 359 and 795. 2 "Your kindness, and Mrs. Eisenhower's, to the girls when they came to serenade you is something they will never forget," McIntosh had said. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Millicent McIntosh, 3 February 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 17. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/17.cfm <--PREV Doc #16  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #18

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