<--PREV Doc #2126  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2128 Document #2127; December 3, 1956 To Ellis Dwinnell Slater Series: EM, AWF, Name Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part XI: The free world's "sad mess"; October 1956 to January 1957 Chapter 23: What is needed is "a calming influence"   Dear Slats: Our telegram of the other evening was merely to try to tell you how much the "old gang" miss you and Priscilla.1 I don't want to make you more unhappy by reciting some of the fun we have had here, so I shall concentrate instead on my golf game, which is anything but good. I find that the two or three months in which I did not play increased my difficulties in every department. Ed Dudley has been patient, as usual, but I am going to need a lot of practice before I feel in the slightest satisfied with my score.2 Most of our mutual friends have been here, except Pete Jones, who seems to be away again doing some fishing. Even he is expected soon.3 We have had a lot of good bridge and good conversation, and all in all, this "vacation" is just what I needed. I only wish I could stay a month or longer and completely relax. But for the next four years I see no possibility ever to be out of sound of the telephone or out of reach of the staff people. I am dreadfully sorry that you must have all the pain and discomfort of a long hospitalization; but please be as philosophic about it as possible. We will have to have a special celebration when once you are up and about. With affectionate regard to Priscilla and all the best to yourself, As ever 1 While commuting to jury duty on November 14 Slater had slipped on subway stairs and was admitted to Beekman Street Hospital in New York City. He had undergone surgery for a broken right arm and a fracture of the right foot and was expected to be hospitalized for several weeks (see Larmon to Whitman, Nov. 14, 1956, and Slater to Whitman, Nov. 29, both in AWF/N, Slater Corr.; and Eisenhower to Slater, Nov. 15, 16, 1956, and Slater to Eisenhower, Nov. 29, 1956, all in AWF/N). The Eisenhowers had been vacationing in Augusta, Georgia, since November 26. They would return to the White House on December 13. 2 This was professional golfer Edward Bishop Dudley, Jr. (for background see Eisenhower Papers, vols. X-XIII). 3 W. Alton ("Pete") Jones would not visit in Augusta due to his wife's illness (see Eisenhower to Slater, Dec. 12, 1956, AWF/N; and Eisenhower to Nettie Jones, Dec. 12, 1956, AWF/D). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Ellis Dwinnell Slater, 3 December 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 2127. 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/2127.cfm <--PREV Doc #2126  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2128

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