<--PREV Doc #1298  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1300 Document #1299; February 9, 1955 To Dwight David Eisenhower II Series: EM, AWF, Microfilm Series: Official Files The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VII: "Nothing could be worse than global war"; January 1955 to May 1955 Chapter 14: "We must show no lack of firmness"   Dear David: You must have a very brilliant man for a grandfather or you wouldn't get straight A's on your report card. If this is true I suspect it is your other grandfather.1 But I can send you a present to show that I'm proud of you.2 I hope that soon you can get out in the yard to practice that old golf swing once again.3 Give my love to all the family--and, of course, this includes you also. As ever 1 The reference is to Colonel Percy Walter Thompson, Barbara Eisenhower's father. 2 Eisenhower would enclose ten dollars with his letter. 3 For more on the grandson's golf game see no. 1116. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Dwight David Eisenhower II, 9 February 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1299. 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/1299.cfm <--PREV Doc #1298  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1300

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