<--PREV Doc #1528  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1530 Document #1529; July 27, 1955 To Richard Milhous Nixon Series: EM, AWF, Administration 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   Dear Dick: Where are we now with respect to that physical business for the children?1 As ever 1 For background on the President's plans to encourage the participation of youth in sports as a means of curbing juvenile delinquency see nos. 1501 and 1503. Nixon would help organize a White House program on physical fitness, which would include arrangements for a two-day conference scheduled for September 27 and 28 in Denver. Eisenhower's heart attack on September 24, however, would temporarily halt this effort. The project would be revived in 1956 (see no. 1887; Cross reference sheet, Fitness of American Youth, July 28, 1955, WHCF/OF 156-A-6; Public Papers of the Presidents: Eisenhower, 1956, pp. 478-79; and Denver Rocky Mountain News, Sept. 18, 1955). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Richard Milhous Nixon, 27 July 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1529. 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/1529.cfm <--PREV Doc #1528  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1530

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