<--PREV Doc #697  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #699 Document #698; January 30, 1954 To Bernard Mannes Baruch Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part IV: "Pushing ahead along the broad center"; December 1953 to March 1954 Chapter 8: A world "racing toward catastrophe"   Dear Bernie: I am told that some of your fine South Carolina quail arrived at the White House last evening. I hope to begin working on them no later than this noon. It was typically kind of you to think of me and I am truly grateful. Recently I have had a few reports from Britain which make it look like Winston is getting a new lease on life. He is apparently much improved in health and as active as ever.1 If ever the Soviets begin to talk seriously at all about any proposals in the atomic field, I shall want to talk to you.2 Admiral Strauss and I try to stay very close together in such matters but, so far as the international aspect of the subject is concerned, we have to wait with such patience as we can muster.3 With every good wish, As ever 1 Churchill, an old friend of Baruch, had suffered a stroke the previous summer (see no. 273). The Prime Minister had indeed told his personal physician on January 21 that his walking was better, confirming the reports Eisenhower had received; however, Churchill also complained that he lacked energy and was short of breath (Lord Charles Moran, Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran [Boston, 1966], pp. 555-57). 2 Baruch had been influential in the development of U.S. nuclear disarmament policy since 1946 and had been the first United States representative on the United Nations Commission on Atomic Energy (see Galambos, Chief of Staff, nos. 902 and 917; and Bernard M. Baruch, Baruch: The Public Years [New York, 1960], pp. 359-72). 3 For developments see no. 829. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Bernard Mannes Baruch, 30 January 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 698. 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/698.cfm <--PREV Doc #697  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #699

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