<--PREV Doc #985  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #987 Document #986; December 29, 1958 To William Edward Robinson Series: EM, AWF, Name Series ; Category: Telegram The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIX - The Presidency: Keeping the Peace Part VI: Setbacks; November 1958 to February 1959 Chapter 14: A "dreary election result"   Dear Bill: Let me urge you to prolong your Florida visit beyond the one or two days that you are counting on and get some good rest in the sun. You work too hard and don’t forget the old saying that that kind of thing will make you a dull boy. You can’t afford that when you have George as a partner.1 Mamie and I have never had a happier weekend.2 We felt it was a real lark. She and David are loud in your praises as the prognosticator, and, incidentally, the weekend was helped out a lot by the provision of caviar that we had a result of your thoughtfulness. I have just heard that the plane reservation did not work out.3 I am sorry. As ever 1 Robinson would reply on this same day that he probably would take Eisenhower's advice and remain in Florida. He had the flu, he wrote, and the medicine he took for it was getting him "down a bit" (AWF/N; see also the longhand note Robinson to Eisenhower, n.d., AWF/N). George E. Allen was a member of the group who played bridge with the President. 2 The Eisenhowers and their son John and his family were spending December 26 - January 3 in Gettysburg (see no. 984). Robinson had visited on December 28. 3 We have been unable to find any information concerning Robinson's airplane reservations. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Telegram To William Edward Robinson, 29 December 1958. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 986. 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/986.cfm <--PREV Doc #985  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  Second Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #987

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