<--PREV Doc #12  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #14 Document #13; February 1, 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   Mamie & I joined a Presbyterian Church. We were scarcely home before the fact was being publicized, by the Pastor, to the hilt. I had been promised, by him, that there was to be no publicity.1 I feel like changing at once to another church of the same denomination. I shall if he breaks out again! 1 Earlier in the day, in a private ceremony that preceded a regular 9:00 a.m. communion service, Dr. Edward L. R. Elson had accepted President and Mrs. Eisenhower and about fifty others into membership at the National Presbyterian Church. Elson, pastor of the congregation, had served as chaplain of the XXI Army Corps in Europe during World War II; he had met with the President on Saturday, January 24, to discuss the Eisenhowers' attending the church (New York Times, Feb. 2, 1953). For more on the reasons for Eisenhower's displeasure see no. 16. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Diary, 1 February 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 13. 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/13.cfm <--PREV Doc #12  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #14

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