<--PREV Doc #1969  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1971 Document #1970; August 31, 1956 To John Hay Whitney Series: EM, AWF, Administration 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 21: "Grave difficulties in the Suez crisis"   Dear Jock: I wish that all written reports from Presidential representatives were as interesting, colorful and downright informative as is yours.1 You make me feel almost as if I had been with you and Betsey throughout the trip. I am grateful to you both for undertaking it. Your comment on the "segregated" character of the Cypress Point stay is just a bit hazy to me.2 Of course I knew little of what was going on, except as I could get hold of my friends in turn and set up a golf date. Actually Mamie was the most segregated of anyone I knew; she didn't get out of bed for the first forty-eight hours she was at the Club. Except for Sunday, when she went to church and riding, and Monday afternoon, when she had in a group of old Army friends, she was very secret, though possibly not a weapon. I wish you could have stayed to play on Monday. That was my best day and, except for three holes, I could not expect to do much better. I birdied #5; I messed up #7 badly and took a bogie on #8, after I had driven over the sand heap well into the middle of the fairway. However, I then started in a streak and was one over par from #9 to #12 inclusive. After that it was a case of "dropping your voice," particularly on the two par threes, #15 and #16, where I took double bogies. When you come down this way, give me a ring. There is no couple we look forward to seeing with greater pleasure than you and Betsey.3 Give her my love, and, of course, all the best to yourself. As ever 1 The Whitneys had traveled to Japan and Korea. The August 27 report is in AWF/A (see also Eisenhower to Whitney, Aug. 8, 1956). In December Whitney would become Ambassador to Great Britain (see no. 2161). 2 Whitney had written: "We wished we could have joined more at Cypress, but it was too `segregated'!" Following the Republican National Convention, the Eisenhowers, the Whitneys and other close friends had vacationed at the Cypress Point Club in Monterey, California (see no. 1916). 3 Whitney would visit the White House on November 23 and 24. He and his wife would accompany the Eisenhowers to Augusta, Georgia, November 27-29. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To John Hay Whitney, 31 August 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1970. 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/1970.cfm <--PREV Doc #1969  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1971

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