Presidential Papers, Doc#1609 To Lucius Du Bignon Clay, 21 October 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #1609; October 21, 1955
To Lucius Du Bignon Clay
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 17: "Stern edicts" from the Doctors

 

Dear Lucius: You and Marjorie have been much on my mind lately. I have heard continuing good reports of your recovery, and today Herb Brownell tells me you are leaving the hospital.1 I am delighted.

As far as I am concerned, my guess (not completely confirmed by the doctors) is that I shall be here at least three weeks more.2 Should you be feeling completely well again and should any kind of circumstance bring you in this direction, I hope that you would in advance call either General Snyder or Sherman Adams and make a date to stop in briefly for a few minutes. If that is impractical, as I suspect it is since we are both in the "invalid" class, I shall have to content myself with seeing you on my return East. I have nothing on my mind except to visit with you, but that urge, I assure you, is always a real one.3

My love to Marjorie and, as always, the best to yourself. As ever

1 Clay had been a patient in the Harkness Pavilion, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center recovering from an undisclosed ailment since September 21 (New York Times, Sept. 28, 1955).

2 On the President's heart attack see no. 1595.

3 On October 28 (AWF/A) Clay would reply that he had been home from the hospital for a week, and was "confident" that he would be able to make a trip to Denver in early November. He went on to say, "I think that your illness has perhaps done more than anything else to show you how much our own people, as well as people throughout the world, think of you and how much they have appreciated the leadership which you have given to the free world." Clay would visit the President in Denver on November 8.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Lucius Du Bignon Clay, 21 October 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1609. 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/1609.cfm

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