<--PREV Doc #3  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #5 Document #4; January 23, 1957 To Edgar Newton Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diary 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 Ed: The other morning I wrote you a letter when I was in a state of great disgust because of what seemed to me to be the unreasonable attitude of one of our in-laws.1 I just received word this minute that Arthur is coming back to Washington this weekend, and while he is here I will seize the opportunity to have my cardiologist look him over.2 What Arthur needs, of course, is advice as to how he should conduct his life from here on out. This apparently he has not had. In any event, this news reassures me, as I hope it will you.3 Give my love to Lucy and tell her that I received the note she wrote to me the day you were having the big snow. By this time I hope you are on the way down to Southern California, and I shall send this letter to the Paradise Inn at Phoenix, to be held until you reach there.4 As ever 1 On the morning of his public Inauguration (see no. 2) Eisenhower had written about Arthur Eisenhower's heart condition and the unwillingness of his wife, Louise, to have him undergo a complete medical checkup. (The letter is no. 1.) 2 Arthur had telephoned the President at 11:05 a.m. (Telephone conversations, AWF/D). On January 31 (AWF/D) Eisenhower would tell Edgar that Arthur had been examined at the Walter Reed Army Hospital and given the name of a good Kansas City cardiologist. "Louise," the President added, "was very cooperative through it all." 3 On February 27 Arthur would be admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, for treatment of an eye ailment. The following day he would be transferred to the heart clinic. Eisenhower would tell his brother that he agreed with the doctors' decision to make certain that Arthur was "in the best possible condition before they engage in any operation, even a relatively minor one" (Feb. 28, 1957, AWF/N). Following a series of tests Arthur would be diagnosed with arterial sclerosis and weakened heart muscles. He would be released from the hospital on March 11 (see Milton Eisenhower to Eisenhower, Mar. 4, 1957, AWF/N, and New York Times, Feb. 28, Mar. 12, 1957). 4 Edgar's wife Lucille had written on January 19 (AWF/N) that it was snowing in Tacoma. Due to Edgar's poor health, she said, the couple planned to visit Sacramento and then drive to Phoenix to spend "an indefinite time" in the "Southern sunshine" (for background on Edgar's health see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, no. 2168). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 23 January 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 4. 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/4.cfm <--PREV Doc #3  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #5

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