<--PREV Doc #1697  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1699 Document #1698; November 8, 1960 To Milton Stover Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, Name Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XXI - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part X: Ending an Era; August 1960 to January 1961 Chapter 24: "We missed by such a narrow margin"   Dear Milton: I have your note about a "family reunion" next summer, possibly in Wisconsin. I’d like to think about it for awhile and talk it all over with you when next I see you.1 Incidentally, do you envision a stag affair or one where wives (and perhaps children--in your case, of course, Ruth) are included? Ann tells me that you have not definitely decided against coming to one of the dinners we are having in a few weeks.2 I take it this means you are really on the mend, for which I am most grateful.3 With warm regard,4 As ever 1 Milton Eisenhower had written November 4 that he and Edgar Eisenhower had discussed having a family reunion in 1961. Milton said he could make arrangements for the Eisenhower brothers to vacation on an isolated 25,000-acre estate, "all timber and lakes," in Wisconsin (AWF/N). For background on Milton Eisenhower’s fishing in Wisconsin see no. 235. The President would lunch at the White House with brothers Milton and Edgar on November 30. 2 Milton would attend a White House dinner on November 30. 3 On Milton’s recent back injury see no. 1663. Although he was still in a cast, he reported, he was working at home and had been pain-free for four days. He expected to have the cast removed in about three weeks. 4 The four brothers would meet in mid-July for a two-week fishing vacation at Land O’ Lakes, Wisconsin (New York Times, July 17, 1960). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 8 November 1960. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1698. 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/1698.cfm <--PREV Doc #1697  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1699

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