Presidential Papers, Doc#745 Personal and confidential To George Edward Allen, 27 February 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #745; February 27, 1954
To George Edward Allen
Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series ; Category: Personal and confidential
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part IV: "Pushing ahead along the broad center"; December 1953 to March 1954
Chapter 9: Fending off "the reactionary fringe"

 

Dear George: In view of what you tell me about your weight on February first, I am discouraged in my efforts to get you down to reasonable size. I think we had better call off our arrangement for the time being. If you want to start it again, all you have to do is to prove that by April first you have lost ten pounds of your present weight. There is no sense at all in keeping a record of your March first because you haven't been trying. However, I will be glad to renew the arrangement at any time you are really going to put your heart into it.

1

The papers have made quite a story out of Sid buying a lot of New York Central stock.2 Yesterday he was quoted as saying, "It is getting to be terrible when a man can't invest ten million dollars without causing a lot of fuss and talk." I thought Sid was smarter than that. Ten million dollars will make a fuss no matter what you do with it.

As you can well imagine, the fight over control of the New York Central has gotten stiff enough that the well-meaning, voluntary, advisers--to say nothing of the plain gossips--have been bringing me many stories about it.3 When I see you, I'll tell you about them.

Give my love to Mary, and remember that I will be expecting you by noon of the sixth.4 As ever

1 For background on the wagers on weight loss between Eisenhower and Allen see no. 581.

2 Sid W. Richardson, who had purchased 400,000 shares of stock in the New York Central Railroad, was reportedly involved in the fight to gain control of the Central (see New York Times, Feb. 26, 1954; and the preceding document).

3 See the preceding document.

4 Allen would attend the President's stag dinner on March 6.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To George Edward Allen, 27 February 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 745. 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/745.cfm

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