<--PREV Doc #68  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #70 Document #69; March 11, 1957 To Armand Hammer Series: EM, AWF, Gettysburg 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 Dr. Hammer:1 After talking with Senator Smith, I have come to the conclusion that I should not accept your more than kind offer to present to me "Mamie of Shadow Isle."2 She is a valuable animal and, quite frankly, she would be a fine addition to my little herd of Angus. However, should I accept, I would find myself in an embarrassing position because of some other similar suggestions of gifts that I have had to decline. I assure you that this negative answer in no way affects the very real sense of gratitude I have for your thoughtfulness--a fact that I am sure Senator Smith, when he next talks to you, will also emphasize. With my thanks and best wishes, Sincerely 1 On January 18 petroleum magnate Hammer, who owned a stock farm in New Jersey, had offered Eisenhower an Aberdeen Angus heifer (AWF/Gettysburg). For background on Hammer and his efforts to provide Black Angus cattle for Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm see Galambos, NATO and the Campaign of 1952, no. 270. 2 Eisenhower had met with H. Alexander Smith (Rep., N.J.) on March 9. On the heifer see no. 15.   Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Armand Hammer, 11 March 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 69. 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/69.cfm <--PREV Doc #68  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #70

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