<--PREV Doc #201  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #203 Document #202; May 21, 1953 To Robert Alphonso Taft Series: Taft Papers 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 Bob: I'm sorry to learn that your hip has continued to be troublesome, and that you are in the hospital for a few days.1 I hope the treatment will completely eliminate the difficulty, and that you will be back in circulation shortly. We need to have you around.2 With best wishes, Sincerely 1 Taft had first complained of pain in his hip in April, after a round of golf with Eisenhower at Augusta. Taft had checked into Walter Reed Hospital on May 20. For developments see no. 222. 2 Even after the diagnosis of his malignancy in late May, Taft, now on crutches, would appear sporadically on Capitol Hill. He would, however, soon relinquish floor leadership to Senator William Knowland (see nos. 188 and 222). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Robert Alphonso Taft, 21 May 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 202. 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/202.cfm <--PREV Doc #201  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #203

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