<--PREV Doc #1148  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1150 Document #1149; November 9, 1954 To Mamie Doud Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, Name Series ; Category: Memorandum 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"   Attached is a list of guests I suggest for Sunday afternoon, coming about four o'clock and spending the evening.1 (Kate and Everett Hughes will be told that they can go home whenever they feel like it.)2 I have some question in my mind as to whether we should have a little reception--exclusively for our official intimates--on Saturday evening, say from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. My idea would be to ask the Cabinet and principal other officials and their wives, principal staff members and wives, and our own personal secretaries. We might add to this the Nixons, and possibly two or three others from the Hill, if you should like. I should think we could have a sort of cocktail party on the ground floor.3 1 The President occasionally sent memorandums to the First Lady regarding receptions and guest lists (see, for example, no. 610). On Sunday, November 14, Mrs. Eisenhower would celebrate her fifty-eighth birthday. The guest list is in AWF/N; see also no. 1154. 2 Major General Everett Strait Hughes (USA, ret.) and his wife, the former Kate Murphy, were close friends of the Eisenhowers (for background see Eisenhower Papers, vols. I-XIII). 3 Cabinet members and their wives and White House staff and spouses would attend a reception at the White House on Saturday evening. On November 15 the New York Times would report that the President "held a surprise reception" for Mrs. Eisenhower on Saturday evening. Italics added. At the bottom of this memorandum is typed: "(Mrs. Eisenhower: The President dictated this, then left to go to the House to make a short film. acw.)" Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Memorandum To Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 9 November 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1149. 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/1149.cfm <--PREV Doc #1148  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1150

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