<--PREV Doc #32  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #34 Document #33; February 9, 1957 To Vernon Bigelow Stouffer Series: EM, AWF, Name Series, Nielsen Corr. 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 Mr. Stouffer:1 A week or so ago Aksel Nielsen wrote me that you were sending to the White House some of the unusual foods for which you have developed a successful freezing method, and the other day, just before we left Washington, I was handed a list of the other various items that had arrived.2 Both Mrs. Eisenhower and I are eager to try each one of them, especially on Aksel's enthusiastic recommendation. I know that everything from spinach souffle to apple cobbler will be delicious, and I am indeed grateful for your thoughtful kindness.3 Although I would not want to impose on you, I am also appreciative of your suggestion that you would like to keep our Gettysburg deep freeze stocked, and we may possibly take you up. Unfortunately, our visits up there have been much too few of late, and what you have already sent us will last quite a while.4 With my thanks and best wishes, Sincerely 1 Stouffer (B.S. University of Pennsylvania 1923) was president and chairman of the board of United Airlines. 2 Nielsen was president of the Title Guaranty Company in Denver, Colorado. For background on Eisenhower's long friendship with him see Eisenhower Papers, vols. I - XVII. Nielsen had written on January 31 (AWF/N; see also Nielsen to Whitman, Feb. 1, 1957, AWF/N, Nielsen Corr.). Eisenhower wrote this letter while vacationing in Thomasville, Georgia (see no. 7). 3 "I have never tasted anything better," the President would write Nielsen on April 17. He went on to ask Nielsen to "quietly get . . . a price list" of the available dishes and to determine where they might be found in the Washington area. Eisenhower said he was thinking of his daughter-in-law and some of her "household problems." "I could always order them through . . . some other third person," he wrote, to "avoid the embarrassing possibility" that Stouffer would think he was asking for a "'donation.'" Nielsen would send the list on April 29 (see also Eisenhower to Nielsen, May 6, 1957, all in AWF/N). 4 In June arrangements would be made for Stouffer to install an electric oven at the Gettysburg farm (see Whitman to Nevins, June 18, 1957, AWF/N). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Vernon Bigelow Stouffer , 9 February 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 33. 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/33.cfm <--PREV Doc #32  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #34

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