<--PREV Doc #1438  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1440 Document #1439; May 16, 1955 To Paul Alfred Hodgson Series: EM, AWF, Name 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 P. A.: Earl Schaefer has just written me about his recent visit with you and reminds me thereby that I have meant to write you for several months.1 Mamie and I are looking forward to the 40th reunion at West Point. I suppose it is too much to hope for that you and Anne could be there, but I do want you to know that we, along with our other classmates, will be thinking about you and wishing you could be with us. I am tentatively scheduled to go up on Sunday and stay through the Commencement ceremony.2 I shall have to stay at the hotel, since too many people are forced to travel with me and any other place would be too awkward. Both Mamie and I have spent most of our free time lately concerned with problems of our Gettysburg home. I have acquired a small herd of Aberdeen Angus and find all the latest dope on bloodlines and breeding, etc., a fascinating business.3 The principal drawback to the place, from my point of view, is the two-hour drive from Washington. If we can get an approved light plane that can land at Gettysburg, I would be much happier.4 Give my affectionate regard to Anne, and, as always, the best to yourself. As ever 1 According to Schaefer, Eisenhower's West Point roommate Hodgson was "so bent over with arthritis that he cannot, when in a standing position, see very much above the floor" (May 13, 1955, AWF/N; see also Eisenhower to Schaefer, May 16, 1955, ibid.). 2 For background on the reunion see no. 894. As it turned out, the Eisenhowers would attend the reunion, and the President would address the 1955 graduating class (see New York Times, June 6, 7, 8, 1955). For developments see no. 1461. 3 For background on the renovations at the Eisenhowers' Gettysburg farm see nos. 876 and 1155; on the President's cattle see no. 1321. 4 For developments see no. 1461. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Paul Alfred Hodgson, 16 May 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1439. 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/1439.cfm <--PREV Doc #1438  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1440

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