<--PREV Doc #179  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #181 Document #180; May 7, 1953 To Herbert Bayard Swope Series: EM, AWF, Name Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part II: Settling into "the long pull"; May 1953 to August 1953 Chapter 3: "A time for continued vigilance"   Dear Herbert: Thanks for your note of the twenty-seventh.1 The possibilities of my future schedule are no more definite than when I wrote you previously; the life of an American President is a fairly complicated business. Merely to transport him around the country--in view of the legal responsibilities of the Treasury Department in his protection--is a matter of considerable complexity and expense. Any trip takes a great deal of planning.2 In spite of all this, I still believe that by July first I can give you a definite reply.3 As ever 1 For background on Swope's efforts to persuade Eisenhower to attend a ceremony honoring Bernard Baruch see no. 128. Swope's letter is in AWF/N. 2 See no. 196. 3 The President would attend (see no. 127). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Herbert Bayard Swope, 7 May 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 180. 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/180.cfm <--PREV Doc #179  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #181

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