<--PREV Doc #1717  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1719 Document #1718; November 28, 1960 To William Alton Jones 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 Pete: Over the weekend I started to brag to someone about the pistol you had given me--and suddenly discovered that I had left it behind at Blue Springs Plantation.1 Next time you come by this way, be sure to bring it along (or better still, make a special trip and we’ll get up a bridge game or something).2 After all, you remember how competent I was with that pistol!3 I rather hastily wrote Nettie to thank her for my latest enjoyment of the extraordinary hospitality that the Jones family dispenses.4 About all I can say to you is that I am permanently, lastingly and greatly in your debt. I hope you don’t mind; I rather like the situation. With warm regard, As ever 1 The Eisenhowers had spent the Thanksgiving holiday weekend at the White House (see the Chronology for a list of their guests). The President had visited Jones at Blue Springs Plantation in Albany, Georgia, November 22 - 23 (see no. 1713). 2 Jones would lunch with the President at the White House on January 17. 3 For Eisenhower’s account of the quail hunt on Jones’s estate see no. 1713. 4 Eisenhower had written that he was "very susceptible" to the Joneses’ "kind of ‘spoiling’" (Nov. 25, 1960; see also Jones to Eisenhower, Nov. 10, 1960, both in AWF/N). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To William Alton Jones, 28 November 1960. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1718. 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/1718.cfm <--PREV Doc #1717  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1719

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