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#1899; June 22, 1956
To William Alton Jones
Series:
EM, AWF, Name Series
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
X: Cracks in the Alliance; May 1956 to September 1956
Chapter
20: Confronting "great risks"
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Dear Pete: I understand from Art Nevins that the skeet and trap shooting range is completely installed and in good working order.1 That's just one more incentive for me to hurry this convalescence business and get up to Gettysburg as soon as possible.2
Of course it is understood that when I see you we have a controversy to settle (and I shall undoubtedly win).3 At the same time, I shall try more adequately to tell you how much I appreciate all that you have done in connection with the skeet and trap range. Meantime, this is just a note to say the barest kind of "thank you" and to tell you that I hope soon to be released from this latest bad dream.
With warm regard to Nettie, and, as always, the best to yourself, As ever
P.S. The doctors say your scar is unquestionably longer than mine--but mine is wider!
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To William Alton Jones,
22 June 1956.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1899.
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/1899.cfm
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