<--PREV Doc #909  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #911 Document #910; June 1, 1954 To Sandra M. Miskelly Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series 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 11: The "men in the Kremlin are not to be trusted"   Dear Sandra: Thank you very much for your nice note.1 I thoroughly enjoyed your short visit to my office; quite naturally I am pleased that you also felt it worth while. This morning I had a talk with your uncle, Clifton Miskelly.2 He gave me some of the details of the courageous and remarkably successful fight you have been making to regain your health. I remarked to him that such a story makes some of the rest of us feel rather small when we get to feeling a bit bowed down with troubles, problems and tribulations. Not only shall I never forget the story he told me, but I am quite certain that from it I will more than once, in the future, draw true inspiration.3 With my very best wishes for your continued and speedy progress toward full health and vigor, and for continued success in your studies. Sincerely 1 Miskelly was a little girl recovering from polio (AWF/AWD, June 2, 1954). Her note is not in AWF. 2 Clifton R. Miskelly, managing director of the Development Commission for the State of Vermont, Nathan S. Ancell, chairman of the board of directors of the Beecher Falls Manufacturing Corporation in Vermont, and Senator George David Aiken (Rep., Vt.) had visited the White House to present Eisenhower with a chest, the millionth piece of Ethan Allen colonial maple furniture. 3 In a thank you letter to Miskelly of this same date, Eisenhower added that he had written to Sandra. "My purpose was the hope that I could make her understand something of the inspiration which she has provided for others--many of whom are older and stronger than herself" (AWF/D). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Sandra M. Miskelly, 1 June 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 910. 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/910.cfm <--PREV Doc #909  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #911

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