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Document
#1857; April 30, 1956
To Sarah Newcomb McClendon
Series:
EM, WHCF, President's Personal File 1502
; Category:
Personal
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
19: The goal: A "durable peace"
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Dear Miss McClendon: Your nice note has just reached my desk. You flatter me highly with your comments about my so-called "paintings," but nonetheless I am glad that you like them.1
I also appreciate your references to the press conferences.2 As I have tried to explain, I find them valuable in that the questions serve to give some hint as to what the people of our country are thinking about. Sometimes they are very informative for me. Likewise, I find them stimulating and, more often than not, enjoyable. For fifteen years I have been questioned periodically by the press and during that time have formed many friends among reporters; beyond this there is nearly always something unexpected, interesting or even amusing that comes up in the normal press conference.
Finally, as for the little courtesies extended by the White House to both the old and young that you mention in your letter, I assure you that such things are deemed a pleasure by the staffs here that make them possible.3
With personal regard, Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Sarah Newcomb McClendon,
30 April 1956.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1857.
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/1857.cfm
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