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Document #1762; February 27, 1956
To Clifford Roberts
Series: EM, AWF, Name 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 Cliff: It seems to me that the reports you have received on my physical activities in Georgia were somewhat exaggerated. My eighteen holes was simply a long ride in a golfmobile, with me stopping far too many times to take a swack at the ball. My bridge lasted on one evening until 12:20, but the unfortunate part was that we didn't start until 9:20. I agree with you that bridge can get tiresome, if you stay at it too long.1

This evening I hope to have a talk with Clay, who has promised to stop here for a short time on his way to Houston. There is a matter or two I want to check with him before I am quite ready to make any public announcement as to my ideas as to my future course.2

It is good news to know that you have had no pains or real symptoms during the course of your illness.3 The only severe pains I had were the night of the attack. Until the doctor arrived and gave me some kind of "shots," I really had some tearing pains through my chest. Since then, I have felt nothing that I could trace directly to my heart. For quite a while I was troubled with a general soreness in my chest, but later the doctors told me that this was probably due to an adhesion that developed between two sections of my anatomy in the heart region. Just what this is I do not know, but they said it was a favorable development.

To return for a moment to the golf. I was somewhat worse than terrible, although I did have a few very good holes. The Thomasville course is a nice one, with a4

1 Roberts had written on February 25. Reports of Eisenhower's "behaving like a young colt" while vacationing in Thomasville, Georgia, Roberts said, had made him "a bit nervous" (AWF/N; on the Georgia vacation see no. 1756).

2 This was Lucius Du Bignon Clay. On Eisenhower's announcement regarding his candidacy in 1956 see no. 1766.

3 Roberts had reported that his condition was favorable and that he was about to be discharged from the hospital (for background see no. 1730).

4 We have been unable to locate the rest of this letter.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Clifford Roberts, 27 February 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1762. 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/1762.cfm

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