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Document
#2144; December 21, 1956
To Sherman Adams
Series:
EM, AWF, Administration 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"
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Dear Sherman: Spectacular tales of your new and improved golf game have been reaching me with such regularity that, when I was down at Augusta, I went shopping for a bag that I thought might match such excellence. It comes to you with the hope that you and Rachel have, this Christmas, the finest and happiest possible time.1
Of course the gift is but a small token of my lasting appreciation of the extraordinary contribution, in your unique post, you are making to the progress of the Administration. I shall be always grateful, as will most Americans, that in the position of trust that you hold, all of us are served by a man whose integrity, competence and selflessness cannot be questioned. And, every day, I am conscious of the many things you do to make my own burden lighter.
Though this note is much too long--it, and the golf bag, bring you my warm personal regard. As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Sherman Adams,
21 December 1956.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 2144.
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/2144.cfm
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