<--PREV Doc #25  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #27 Document #26; February 5, 1957 To Lucius Du Bignon Clay Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVIII - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part I: A New Beginning, Old Problems; January 1957 to May 1957 Chapter 1: The Mideast and the Eisenhower Doctrine   Dear Lucius:1 Before the Inauguration Tom Stephens told me that you had--since you were a highly intelligent man--decided against coming down to Washington for the ceremonies.2 I agreed completely and with envy to your decision, but the fact remains that I haven't had an opportunity to talk with you in a long time. I'm going to try to get away to Georgia on Friday for a week or ten days, but sometime after my return, when you are planning to be in Washington on business, won't you give my office a ring.3 I have nothing particular on my mind, but I have missed seeing you of late. Give my love to Marjorie and, as always, the best to yourself.4 As ever 1 General Clay, Eisenhower's old friend and political adviser, was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Continental Can Company. For background see Eisenhower Papers, vols. I - XVII. 2 On the Inauguration see no. 2. Thomas Edwin Stephens had been Eisenhower's appointments secretary in his 1952 campaign and in his first Administration (see Eisenhower Papers, vols. XII - XVII). 3 The Eisenhowers would vacation in Thomasville, Georgia, from February 8 - 19 (see no. 7). Clay would visit the White House on May 27. 4 Clay's wife was the former Marjorie McKeown. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Lucius Du Bignon Clay, 5 February 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 26. 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/26.cfm <--PREV Doc #25  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #27

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