<--PREV Doc #6  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #8 Document #7; January 24, 1957 To George Magoffin Humphrey 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 George: The dates I am now trying to hold out for our Thomasville visit are as follows: to leave on Friday, the eighth, and return on Sunday, the sixteenth. How would that strike you?1 I mentioned these dates to Jock and he thought these would fit their situation perfectly.2 As long as Jock is there, I imagine he would be quite content to put up anybody we would like to include in our bridge. I think we could ask Bill or Pete3--and we might ask the Gruenthers.4 Actually if we got rained or snowed in, we would even like a fifth, so as to have someone to cut in. If you have any thoughts on the matter, let me know, and I will call both Jock and the people we want. I doubt that either Bill or Gruenther shoots and, of course, Gruenther being on a new job, may feel that he cannot spare a week. We could also, if we wanted, ask George and Mary Allen, who are always fun to have around.5 As ever 1 Treasury Secretary Humphrey (LL.B. University of Michigan 1912) and his wife, the former Pamela Stark, owned Milestone Plantation, located near Thomasville, Georgia. For background on the Eisenhowers' visits to Milestone for bridge-playing and turkey and quail shooting see Eisenhower Papers, vols. XII - XVII. The Eisenhowers would visit the Humphreys from February 8 - 19. Eisenhower's February 26 thank-you letter to the Humphreys is in AWF/D. 2 John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, and his wife, the former Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, would accompany the Eisenhowers. For background on the Whitneys see Eisenhower Papers, vols. X - XVII, esp. vol. XVI, nos. 1580 and 1662. 3 Coca-Cola Company President William Edward Robinson would travel with the President's party. William Alton ("Pete") Jones, chairman of the board of Cities Service Company, would not go to Thomasville. (For background on Robinson see Eisenhower Papers, vols. VI - XVII; on Jones see ibid., vols. X - XVII.) 4 Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, Alfred Maximilian Gruenther had become president of the American Red Cross on January 1 (see Galambos and van Ee, The Middle Way, no. 2008; see also Eisenhower Papers, vols. I - XVII). His wife was the former Grace Elizabeth Crum. As it turned out, the Humphreys would invite another couple, and the President would apologize to Gruenther for asking him to hold that "period for a possible invitation" (Feb. 4, 1956, AWF/D). 5 Washington, D.C., lawyer and business executive George Edward Allen and his wife, the former Mary Keane, were old friends of the Eisenhowers (for background see Dwight D. Eisenhower, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends [Garden City, N.Y., 1967], pp. 282 - 87, 360 - 61; and Eisenhower Papers, vols. I - XVII). The Allens would join the Eisenhowers at Humphrey's plantation. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To George Magoffin Humphrey, 24 January 1957. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 7. 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/7.cfm <--PREV Doc #6  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #8

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