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Document
#1319; February 28, 1955
To Alfred Maximilian Gruenther
Series:
EM, AWF, Administration Series
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"
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Dear Al: What with the cheese and the Chivas, I can think of no reason why you should be thanking me for steaks.1 In any event I hope they taste as well as those we have been having lately. We seem to be in a really good vintage at this moment.
You will recall that something like a month ago I wrote you a long letter giving the line of reasoning on which I based my recommendations to the Congress for the general nature and character of our defense forces over the coming year.2 When you were here I meant to ask for your reactions. While we discussed the subject generally, I failed to talk to you about the matter as specifically as I would have liked. Please put the subject down on your agenda for us to take up when you come back shortly after the middle of March.3
Incidentally, don't fail to bring Grace back with you; I believe that she and Mamie have a big date to go see the farm.
With warm regard, As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Alfred Maximilian Gruenther,
28 February 1955.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1319.
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/1319.cfm
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