<--PREV Doc #1918  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1920 Document #1919; July 18, 1956 To Howard McCrum Snyder, Sr. 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"   Dear Howard: Because you have so long been my friend and physician, I am afraid that sometimes I overlook telling you, as best I can, the true measure of my gratitude to you.1 I have, unwittingly to be sure, imposed a responsibility on you twice within the last year that would have staggered a lesser man; but you have responded brilliantly, with all the great skill and warm compassion at your command.2 All I can say is a simple "thank you"--but you will, with your understanding and devotion, know what those two words really mean. As ever 1 Snyder had been Eisenhower's personal physician since his assignment to the Army Ground Forces (AGF) in December 1945 (see Galambos, Chief of Staff, no. 511). 2 On the President's September 1955 heart attack see no. 1595; on his recent ileotransverse colostomy see no. 1894. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Howard McCrum Snyder, Sr., 18 July 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1919. 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/1919.cfm <--PREV Doc #1918  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1920

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