<--PREV Doc #1720  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1722 Document #1721; December 1, 1960 To Winston Spencer Churchill Series: EM, AWF, International Series: Churchill The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XXI - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part X: Ending an Era; August 1960 to January 1961 Chapter 25: Farewells and Warnings   [Dear Winston:] When Joyce Hall told me today that he was to see you some time next week, I could not resist the opportunity to send you a little note merely to say how delighted I am by the reports we have received of your progress in recovering from the accident that felled you temporarily.1 You can, I am sure, well understand my disappointment at the result of our recent election.2 At present I am trying to arrange for an orderly transfer of the official business of government to the incoming Administration.3 We have often discussed the virtues and disadvantages of the political systems of your country and mine; about all I can say is that I now have some new and personal arguments to add (all of which I shall some time hope to tell you). Give my affectionate regard to Clemmie and, of course, all the best to yourself. As ever 1 Greeting card manufacturer Joyce Clyde Hall had visited the President at the White House. Churchill had broken a small bone in his back as a result of a fall at his home on November 15 (see no. 1709, and New York Times, Nov. 27, 1960). Hall, who had promoted a U.S. exhibition of Churchill’s paintings in 1957 (see no. 86), may have been planning his trip to England in order to arrange to have the former Prime Minister’s paintings featured on greeting cards (New York Times, Oct. 28, 1961). 2 Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy had defeated Vice-President Richard M. Nixon on November 8 (see nos. 1699 and 1700). 3 On December 6 Eisenhower would meet with President-elect Kennedy to discuss the transfer of responsibilities. Eisenhower’s memorandum on the meeting is no. 1724. See also Eisenhower, Waging Peace, p. 603. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Winston Spencer Churchill, 1 December 1960. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1721. 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/1721.cfm <--PREV Doc #1720  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1722

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