<--PREV Doc #1638  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1640 Document #1639; November 22, 1955 To Bill Joe Patton Series: EM, WHCF, President's Personal File 1443 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 Bill Joe: Thank you for your note of the fifteenth.1 Of course you realized that picture showed a highly unorthodox method of using a putter; what I was trying to do was show my son what I thought, at least, was the matter with his swing--and of course the cameraman with the long lens caught me at it.2 I'm trying to put out of my mind the golf games I missed--and concentrate on Augusta, hopefully, in the Spring.3 With warm regard to the entire Patton family, Sincerely 1 The note is in the same file as this document. 2 Amateur golfer Patton had written: "When I saw your picture in the paper the other day swinging the golf club, I then realized that my prayers for you were being answered." A photograph of Eisenhower holding a putter over his head had appeared on the front page of the New York Times on November 13. 3 The Eisenhowers would vacation in Augusta, Georgia, the week of April 9-15, 1956. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Bill Joe Patton, 22 November 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1639. 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/1639.cfm <--PREV Doc #1638  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1640

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