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Document
#1459; June 4, 1955
To Ward Darley
Series:
EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
VIII: Toward "statesmanship of a high order"; June 1955 to November 1955
Chapter
16: Summitry at Geneva
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Dear Dr. Darley:1 Senator Millikin has forwarded to me your letter suggesting that I speak at the annual convocation of the University of Colorado on Monday, September twenty-sixth. I know you realize that both because of your connection with the University and the sentimental attachment I feel for Colorado, that I should like very much to be able to accept.
However, the situation is this. I do not now know that I shall be in Denver at that time, though I am hopeful that I shall be. If I do manage to get away for what is most inaccurately called a "vacation," all the paper work of this office follows me. The only way in which I can get some time for rest and relaxation is to rigidly refuse an invitation such as yours--not so much because of the trip to Boulder itself (which I assure you I would enjoy), but because a speech of this type entails inescapably many hours of preparation.
I have written you rather fully to explain why the answer to your kind invitation must be reluctantly "No." I sincerely trust you will understand.2
With warm regard, Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Ward Darley,
4 June 1955.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1459.
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/1459.cfm
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