Presidential Papers, Doc#38 To Isidor Schwaner Ravdin, 14 February 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #38; February 14, 1957
To Isidor Schwaner Ravdin
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 Rav: When you are next in Washington perhaps I could talk to you about the suggestions in your letter of the twelfth to Mrs. Whitman.1 My offhand reaction is that I could not possibly give two talks before medical groups in one year simply because, silly as it sounds, I would be accused of favoritism and deluged with similar requests from physicists, atomic scientists, and the like!

But before I come to any decision, I would like to talk the matter over with Howard Snyder and Bobby Cutler--and you, if you are going to be in Washington sometime in the next two or three weeks.2

The weather here has been delightful, and I feel no urge at all to return to the dampness and cold that I understand still prevails up there.3 I've had only fair success with golf, but a couple of lucky days in the field.

With warm regard, As ever

1 Ravdin, professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was chairman of the Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons (for background see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, no. 1912). He had written to Eisenhower's personal secretary Ann Cook Whitman asking that the President address both the Students of the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons. These two occasions, he wrote, would "provide the opportunity for the President to express himself on matters of tremendous importance to American medicine" (AWF/A, Ravdin Corr.). For background on Whitman see Eisenhower Papers, vols. XII - XVII.

2 Eisenhower would meet with his personal physician Howard McCrum Snyder, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Robert Cutler (to whom Ravdin had also written) and Ravdin on February 25 (for background on Snyder see Eisenhower Papers, vols. VI - XVII; on Cutler see ibid., vols. X - XVII). For developments see no. 160.

3 See no. 7.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Isidor Schwaner Ravdin, 14 February 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 38. 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/38.cfm

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