<--PREV Doc #669  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #671 Document #670; April 30, 1958 To Alfred Maximillan Gruenther Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part IV: Recession and Reform; February 1958 to May 1958 Chapter 9: "The problems inherent in this job"   Dear Al: I have friends who play a good game of bridge. I have at least one friend who talks a good game of bridge. But there is a certain individual who has proved beyond all doubt his superiority in teaching the game of bridge. The other day, to commemorate that memorable feat, I, by virtue of the authority vested in me, did confer on Pete Jones a permanent appointment. In all fairness you should have a copy for your archives.1 With warm regard, As ever P.S. You will note that the "Secretary" joins me in confirming the legality of the appointment.2 1 Eisenhower had spent the evening of April 19 at Camp David with friends playing bridge and celebrating Jones's birthday (Ann Whitman memorandum, Apr. 18, 1958, AWF/AWD). In a thank-you letter to the head of the White House social office, Eisenhower would say the mock certificate was the "hit" of the birthday party (Eisenhower to Tolley, Apr. 23, 1958, WHCF/PPF 504). See also no. 122. 2 Mrs. Whitman noted that Eisenhower requested "a special commission made up for Pete Jones" (Ann Whitman memorandum, Apr. 19, 1958, AWF/AWD). The certificate, a copy of which is in the Gruenther Papers, conferred upon Jones a "DCL" (Doctor of Card Law) degree and appointed him "PROFESSOR and INSTRUCTOR of Al Gruenther and Others in the Laws, Rules, Techniques and Skullduggery of Bridge . . . during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being." Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Alfred Maximillan Gruenther, 30 April 1958. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 670. 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/670.cfm <--PREV Doc #669  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #671

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