<--PREV Doc #1682  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1684 Document #1683; January 10, 1956 To Arthur William Tedder Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part IX: "Concerning my political intentions"; December 1955 to April 1956 Chapter 18: On "an almost normal schedule"   Dear Arthur: For some reason or other, your letter of December twentieth did not reach me until today, taking, for some reason, much more time en route than did Richard's nice Christmas card.1 I am glad you like your new (or, as you say, "old") house. Certainly Mamie and I share the enthusiasm of the Tedders for a place that can really be called one's own. Mamie, in particular, resents every day that she has to spend away from Gettysburg.2 I just returned to Washington after ten days at Key West where I went obediently in response to those doctors' orders of which you speak.3 The mild exercise that I could indulge in there made me feel much better, and more able to face the next months. The months when Congress is in session are always, you know, much more difficult than any other time of the year. This note brings to all the Tedders my warm good wishes for a fine New Year, and my personal regard. As ever P.S. It would not be possible for anything you do to be presumptuous.4 1 Marshal of the Royal Air Force Tedder had been Deputy Supreme Commander under Eisenhower during World War II and the United Kingdom's representative on the NATO Standing Group (for background see Eisenhower Papers, vols. I-XIII). Tedder's letter is in WHCF/PPF 630. Richard was Tedder's youngest son and Eisenhower's godson. The Christmas card is in WHCF/PPF 31-A; see also Eisenhower to Richard Tedder, Jan. 1, 1956, ibid. 2 In 1954 the Tedders had moved into the first house of their own, an old farm house built in 1471. On the Eisenhowers' first home, their farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, see no. 749. 3 On the Key West vacation see no. 1661. Tedder had asked Eisenhower to be "reasonably obedient to the Doctors' orders!" 4 Tedder had addressed the letter "My dear Ike" because he said he thought it would be "rather a presumption . . . to write to the President." Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Arthur William Tedder, 10 January 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1683. 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/1683.cfm <--PREV Doc #1682  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1684

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