<--PREV Doc #1428  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1430 Document #1429; May 9, 1955 To Paul Gray Hoffman 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 15: Searching "for an honorable peace"   Dear Paul: The birthday card your sister sent you so intrigued me that I conducted, secretly, a one-man poll. The answer was "Yes" to practically all--but I most definitely refuse to specify precisely.1 If you would omit the heroes, I seriously wish you would write that article about peace.2 It can be won if, as the Secretary of State said yesterday, we are willing to work as hard at the job as we are at the job of winning a war.3 With warm regard--give my love to Dorothy, As ever 1 Hoffman had enclosed the card with his letter of May 5 (AWF/A). The card's theme was a quiz on signs of aging. 2 Hoffman had said that he had been considering "an article under the title of `Peace Can Be Won--And We Are Winning It.' The hero of the piece," he had written, "is going to be a man named Eisenhower." 3 Secretary of State Dulles had spoken at the opening session of the NATO Council in Paris (see no. 1432 and New York Times, May 10, 1955). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Paul Gray Hoffman, 9 May 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1429. 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/1429.cfm <--PREV Doc #1428  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1430

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