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Document
#1717; November 26, 1960
To Earl H. Blaik
Series:
EM, AWF, DDE Diaries 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"
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Dear Red: George Allen has just called me to give me the sad news about Victor.1 He has always been a good personal friend but even long before I met him, he was the soul of kindness and thoughtfulness toward my wife, during the years that I was absent in World War II.2
George tells me that Mrs. Emanuel is so ill that it would be futile for me to attempt to send her a note of condolence.3 But I did want you to know, as one of Victor’s closest friends, of our sense of grief and loss in his passing.4
I know that he has one son in Britain, but I think I have never met any close relative of his. I would appreciate it if, on my behalf, you would find it possible to convey to him or to any other persons in his family, the sentiments I have so feebly expressed in this letter.5
With warm personal regard, Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Earl H. Blaik,
26 November 1960.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1717.
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/1717.cfm
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