<--PREV Doc #905  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #907 Document #906; May 29, 1954 To Alfred Maximilian Gruenther Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series ; Category: Telegram 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"   Colonel Schulz is cabling you concerning your landing and customs facilities, which will be easy to arrange whether we go to David or stay here.1 I hear that you are leaving Gracie at home. You have no permission for any such omission and none repeat none is granted. We expect her to be with you.2 Incidentally my own boss tells me to notify you that the reducing machine project is dropped for the time being. As ever 1 General Gruenther, Supreme Commander of the NATO forces, would return to the United States to receive an honorary degree from Williams College on Sunday, June 13 (see New York Times, June 14, 1954). On June 3 Gruenther would notify the President that he would arrive the evening of June 11. "All we need is reasonably good weather, and that is your responsibility," he added (AWF/A). Eisenhower would choose Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains as the site for their visit. 2 Gruenther would assure Eisenhower that "the wish of the President of the United States is a command in the Gruenther family--and especially so when it is endorsed by Sweet Mamie. The Bolivia champion, Her Highness Grace the Gruenther, will be on hand for the Camp David jamboree!" (ibid.). The Gruenthers would spend June 11 and 12 at Camp David (see nos. 885, 892, and the Chronology). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Telegram To Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 29 May 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 906. 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/906.cfm <--PREV Doc #905  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #907

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