<--PREV Doc #36  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #38 Document #37; February 17, 1953 To Edgar Newton Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, Name Series 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 Ed: I can understand your embarrassment about coming to Augusta on the thirteenth, but not on the fifth.1 The only thing that I could suggest that might serve as a proper explanation to your prospective host would be that you wanted to come while I was there. If you do decide you have to pass it up, I shall be disappointed; but, of course, I shall understand.2 When you do come to Washington, you may bring your own clubs or not, just as you choose. I have a number of sets to choose from--my best one being the l test model of Spalding Top-Flight. If I have sufficient notice as to when you are coming, the chances would be that I could play with you--but, of course, we never know what kind of emergency job will turn up. I know that Jack Westland would want to play with you, nevertheless.3 Give my love to Lucy and to Janice, and, of course, all the best to yourself. As ever 1 For background see no. 24. Edgar, who had hoped to meet his brother at the Augusta National Golf Club, wrote of invitations he had received to play there the week before the Masters Tournament, which opened April 9. "I think it would not be easy for me to explain to my host why I could come on the 13th, but couldn't be there on the 5th" (AWF/N). 2 Eisenhower would leave for Augusta late the morning of April 13, and would fly back to Washington three days later for a nationally broadcast speech (see no. 132), and the official opening of the major-league baseball season. He would then return to Augusta until the afternoon of April 21. 3 Edgar had mentioned playing with Alfred John Westland. A businessman, navy veteran, and national amateur golf champion, Westland (LL.B. University of Washington Law School 1926) had won a seat in the House of Representatives from Washington State as an Eisenhower Republican the preceding November. During the campaign, when Eisenhower's train passed through Everett, Washington, Westland had presented the General with a putter as a "good luck omen" (New York Times, Oct. 7, Nov. 6, 1952). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 17 February 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 37. 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/37.cfm <--PREV Doc #36  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #38

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