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Document
#863; May 6, 1954
To Elmer S. McCormick
Series:
EM, WHCF, President's Personal File 1171
; Category:
Personal
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
V: Maintaining "a united defense"; April 1954 to August 1954
Chapter
10: Losing the war "they could not win"
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Dear Mr. McCormick: I was greatly interested in your letter of April thirtieth.1 It brought back many memories of stories I heard from my father and mother. Thank you for writing.
The last part of your letter contained an especially intriguing thought. You said, "Please, Ike, the have nots are ten to one. Yes, maybe one hundred to one in comparison with the haves. Please, Dwight, don't go back on us, the lowly and the forgotten." You obviously have in mind only material wealth when you say "have nots." Such an index means little to me. In fact, I venture the opinion that, because of your rich background of frontier experience, ninety-nine out of every hundred individuals of your age in the United States would be glad to exchange memories--and fortunes--with you.2
With the hope that your health improves rapidly, and with warm regard, Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Elmer S. McCormick,
6 May 1954.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 863.
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/863.cfm
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