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Document
#499; October 29, 1953
To Clifford Roberts
Series:
EM, AWF, Name Series
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
III: The Space Age Begins; October 1957 to January 1958
Chapter
6: Building strength when there is "no perfect answer"
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Dear Cliff: I understand that in your building projects at Augusta you are counting on providing an "office" for me when I happen to be there. The purpose of this note is to beg you to make nothing special for me.1
If I am merely to use something that at other times you have need for and actually use--then all well and good. But any little office in which I can be relatively alone while working on my chores is perfectly satisfactory. I should say that room for a very small desk and for Mrs. Whitman's typewriter would be ample.
It is possible that you may have written to some of my staff about these things, but if this is so, I am deeply anxious to give you my direct assurances that nothing special is needed for me.
We are still hopefully counting on getting away from here on the 24th, although quite naturally our plans will gravitate largely around John's opportunities for a short leave. Can you imagine what fun we will have with the entire family in the new house?2 This reminds me I must write a letter to John and make certain that young David is practicing his chip shots!3
It was fine to see you the other night.4 As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Clifford Roberts,
29 October 1953.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 499.
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/499.cfm
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