<--PREV Doc #1144  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1146 Document #1145; November 4, 1954 To Lawrence McCool Pexton Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VI: Crises Abroad, Party Problems at Home; September 1954 to December 1954 Chapter 13: "A new phase of political experience"   Dear Pex: The set of Wilson golf clubs arrived in my office yesterday afternoon and provided a wonderful antidote for some of the news of the day.1 (Not, of course, that I was not delighted beyond measure to hear of Gordon Allot's success).2 Needless to say, I am deeply grateful to you and to Mr. Cooney, whom I am also writing.3 The next item on the agenda is to get rid of a touch of bursitis that I have managed to develop, and beyond that, to get out on the course with the new clubs.4 With warm regard, As ever 1 On the 1954 midterm election returns see no. 1138. 2 On November 2 Lieutenant Governor of Colorado Gordon Llewellyn Allot (LL.B. University of Colorado 1929) had been elected Republican Senator from Colorado (New York Times, Nov. 3, 1954). 3 Eisenhower's thank you letter to Cooney is not in AWF. 4 The President had developed bursitis in his right shoulder in late October (New York Times, Oct. 29, 1954). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Lawrence McCool Pexton, 4 November 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1145. 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/1145.cfm <--PREV Doc #1144  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1146

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