<--PREV Doc #70  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #72 Document #71; March 6, 1953 To Robert Alphonso Taft Series: Taft Papers The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part I: Charting a New Course; January 1953 to April 1953 Chapter 2: "A number of misunderstandings": Party and International Struggles   Dear Senator Taft: As quickly as possible after lunch, I had inquiries made at the Weather Office concerning tomorrow's prospects.1 They were bad enough, (40° temperature) that I called you and Charley Halleck at once to suggest postponement of our date.2 He agreed--but since you were not in your office and I would not permit them to call you away from something important, I could do nothing but leave a message with your secretary. I do hope that we can have a game soon. Sincerely 1 Eisenhower wrote this letter in longhand after hosting a stag luncheon for British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. Taft was among the eleven members of Congress who attended the lunch, which included Secretary of State Dulles and various British and U.S. diplomats. 2 For the President's opinion of the House majority leader, who was also a guest at the Eden luncheon, see no. 23. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Robert Alphonso Taft, 6 March 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 71. 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/71.cfm <--PREV Doc #70  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #72

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