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Document
#1449; May 30, 1955
To Alfred Maximilian Gruenther
Series:
EM, Gruenther Papers
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"
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Dear Al: Many thanks for your note of the twenty-fourth. Poor George, along with Bill, is not only trying to recover from the blow we dealt them at the bridge table.1 George was a little too optimistic about one of his horses out on the West Coast that ran (and need I add, ran last?) one day during the week. Now he is chastened and contrite, and assures me that he plans to stick to cattle as a more stable and less expensive pastime.2
The only "concern" I could possibly have about your future is that your talents and abilities be employed in the direction not only designed to give you the maximum satisfaction, but also for the benefit of our country and our allies. I agree with your decision to stay where you are for a year or so, but I assure you that the subject of your future assignment will always be one of paramount importance to me, both personally and officially.3
Give my love to Grace, and, as always, the best to yourself. As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Alfred Maximilian Gruenther,
30 May 1955.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1449.
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/1449.cfm
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