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Document
#131; April 4, 1953
To Edward John Barber
Series:
EM, AWF, Name Series: Augusta
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
2: "A number of misunderstandings": Party and International Struggles
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Dear Ed:1 Freeman Gosden2 and Cliff Roberts3 were here yesterday and I learned from them that you had to play a rough match with surgery last week.4 You were obliged to "win" with so many pulling for you, but you still have the job of getting those wounds healed up. I am a little slow getting started, but I want you to know that from here on I, too, will be in your rooting section.
I am planning to go to "our" club for possibly a week's stay, leaving here the thirteenth of this month.5 Like many others I feel when I go there that I am a guest of yours. Your name appears at the top of the list on the plaque which is attached to the globe recently presented to me, and in many respects you are entitled to the same classification at the Augusta National.6 If you could have someone send me a message assuring me that you are doing all right, my vacation would be a happier one. Better yet, start planning now to let the Augusta National help do the latter part of your repair job.7
With warm regard, Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Edward John Barber,
4 April 1953.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 131.
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/131.cfm
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