<--PREV Doc #30  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #32 Document #31; February 7, 1957 To Sigurd Stanton Larmon Series: EM, AWF, Name 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 Sig:1 I forgot to write you that a few nights ago Al Gruenther was sitting in my house and I gave him the "problem."2 After a very few tries he solved it. The whole key to the thing, of course, is the discard of a diamond instead of a club so as to give a chance to come back to your own hand twice by trumping clubs. This provides two discards for the ace and king of diamonds. Today I have a note from your nephew, sending the solution along.3 I am sorry he was put to the trouble but appreciative of his thoughtfulness. Personally after looking at it that first evening, I just decided lazily that it could not work and I let it go at that--but once you have the key play it is simple enough. Have a good vacation!4 As ever 1 Larmon, a New York advertising executive and a member of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Information, was among the select group of friends who from time to time accompanied the President on vacations. For background see Eisenhower Papers, vols. XII - XVII. 2 Gruenther had visited Eisenhower's Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, farm on January 25 and 26. The "problem" involved bridge, one of Eisenhower's favorite games. 3 Park Larmon Brown's February 5 letter is in AWF/N. 4 Larmon had gone to Jamaica (see ibid.). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Sigurd Stanton Larmon, 7 February 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 31. 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/31.cfm <--PREV Doc #30  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #32

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