Begin First Term  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2 Document #1; January 21, 1953 Diary Series: EM, Diaries 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   My first day at President's Desk.1 Plenty of worries and difficult problems. But such has been my portion for a long time--the result is that this just seems (today) like a continuation of all I've been doing since July '412--even before that! 1 For background on Eisenhower's inauguration the day before as thirty-fourth president of the United States see nos. 1020 and 1056-57 in The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower (Baltimore, 1970-), vol. XIII, NATO and the Campaign of 1952, ed. Louis Galambos (1989), hereafter cited as Galambos, NATO and the Campaign of 1952; New York Times, January 21, 1953; and Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower, vol. II, The President (New York, 1984), pp. 41-43. Eisenhower discussed his feelings on entering office in Mandate for Change, 1953-1956 (Garden City, N.Y., 1963), pp. 107-8. 2 In July 1941, as a recently promoted colonel, Eisenhower had begun a tour of duty as Chief of Staff, Third Army, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas (Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower, vol. I, Soldier, General of the Army, President Elect [New York, 1983], p. 127). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Diary, 21 January 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1. 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/1.cfm Begin First Term  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2

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