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Document
#1082; February 27, 1959
To Richard King Mellon
Series:
EM, WHCF, Official File 101-B-1
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XIX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace
Part
VI: Setbacks; November 1958 to February 1959
Chapter
15: "Debate is the breath of life"
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Dear Dick: I owe you an apology which I hasten to make.
There has not been the slightest doubt in my mind, since our conversation on the point at Ligonier, as to the exact relationship between you and Paul Mellon. I can give no other explanation for my lapse in referring to him in my note of February seventeenth as your brother, other than to say that in the press of work my tongue responded to a subconscious memory--back to the period when I had been under the impression that your relationship was that of brothers.1
The above is obviously more of an excuse than a reason. But at least I want to assure you that I know better than I spoke.
Please remember me kindly to your charming bride and, of course, warmest regard to yourself. As ever
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Richard King Mellon,
27 February 1959.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1082.
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/second-term/documents/1082.cfm
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