<--PREV Doc #2142  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2144 Document #2143; December 19, 1956 To Hubert Reilly Harmon 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 Doodle: Yesterday Howard Snyder told me he had seen one of your doctor friends, who reported that you were coming along splendidly.1 I am delighted. Normally I don't like to talk about my illnesses and operations, but if I could have an hour with you, I think it would be great fun to have a contest in telling of all the things we have been through during this past year.2 I understand your son is to graduate from West Point this June. My guess is that he will go in the Air Force and so one of these days he will probably be an instructor in the school you founded in Colorado.3 I know that he will get great satisfaction out of the sentiment in that connection. My own son, John, is still an instructor at Fort Belvoir. I am hopeful that his next assignment will be here in Washington, of sufficient duration to carry him through my own second tour in this position.4 Give my love to Rosa Maye and above all things take good care of yourself, which normally is another way of saying "Do what the doctors tell you." With affectionate regard to you both, As ever 1 For background on Harmon's health see no. 2007. 2 On Eisenhower's surgery for ileitis see no. 1894. 3 In July 1954 Harmon had become the first superintendent of the Air Force General Academy (see no. 980). Harmon's son, Kendrick, would serve in the air force as a first lieutenant until 1960. 4 In July 1957 John Eisenhower would be assigned to the Pentagon office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of Military Operations. He would be assigned to the White House as Assistant Staff Secretary on October 20, 1958 (see Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 319; and John Eisenhower, Strictly Personal, pp. 193-95, 202). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Hubert Reilly Harmon, 19 December 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 2143. 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/2143.cfm <--PREV Doc #2142  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2144

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