<--PREV Doc #1353  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1355 Document #1354; March 21, 1955 To Harold C. Fox Series: EM, WHCF, President's Personal File 1-A-8 ; Category: Personal and confidential 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 15: Searching "for an honorable peace"   Dear Mr. Fox: Thank you very much for your kindly offer to make me a suit of clothes.1 Actually I think that an additional single breasted suit could scarcely cure me of my incorrigible habit of wearing a double breasted one occasionally. Nevertheless, I most deeply appreciate your thoughtfulness, and even though I may continue at times to violate the dictates of "fashion," (your note was the first intimation that I was so doing), I do hope that you will never have cause to regret your own conversion in 1952.2 With best wishes, Sincerely 1 Harold Fox, a Chicago tailor, had enclosed a picture from a Chicago newspaper showing Eisenhower wearing a double-breasted suit. Titled "Ike Not Abreast," the article accompanying the picture said, "For well over a year, experts on male fashions have been trumpeting that the double-breasted suit is as out of date as the Roman toga" (Chicago American, Mar. 16, 1955). Agreeing with this assessment, Fox told Eisenhower that he would welcome the opportunity to convert his coat into a single-breasted style "as you converted my personal political feelings in 1952 when I voted Republican for the first time. . . . Send it soon as possible and your chest and waist measurement! We will do the rest" (Fox to Eisenhower, Mar. 17, 1955, same file as document). 2 Eisenhower had written "? ? Scared of this one" at the top of Fox's letter. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To Harold C. Fox, 21 March 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1354. 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/1354.cfm <--PREV Doc #1353  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1355

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