EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969), President . Autograph letter signed ("Ike"), as Supreme Commander, to Mamie Eisenhower, 2 March [ca. 1943]. 3 pages, 4to, with original envelope and free frank , SIGNED ON CENSOR'S STAMP ("Dwight D. Eisenhower").
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969), President . Autograph letter signed ("Ike"), as Supreme Commander, to Mamie Eisenhower, 2 March [ca. 1943]. 3 pages, 4to, with original envelope and free frank , SIGNED ON CENSOR'S STAMP ("Dwight D. Eisenhower"). "GEN. M. HAS BEEN WONDERFUL TO ME--NO MATTER WHAT HE MAY FIND IT NECESSARY TO DO IN THE FUTURE" A warm, emotional letter to his wife back home, with praise for his mentor, Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, and a comical scheme to redirect a present intended for Marshall back to Mamie. "I've already written you a rather long letter today," Ike says, "but upon re-reading the two I just received from you they made me feel so close to you that I just had to find a minute to write again." He praises Mamie for the "masterly way" she has handed all the press attention falling on her following her husband's promotion to head of the American forces in North Africa. Then, turning to a domestic problem he says: "I'm suffering some acute embarrassment about the rug. All this paragraph is highly secret..." Ike sent home a rug to Mamie, but then came upon another one that was "much nicer (and 3 times as expensive)." But somehow this nicer rug got promised to George Marshall and his wife. "Now, I have the one I want for you, but if I give it to Gen. G.C.M. I'm sending him something I truly wanted you to have. I'm stymied...What to do; what to do!" He then suggests various "screwy" schemes for switching the gifts. Eisenhower wants to please both Mamie and Marshall, because "Gen. M. has been wonderful to me--no matter what he may find it necessary to do in the future." Perhaps the real reason for Eisenhower's rug intrigues is disclosed by the line he writes in the last paragraph of this letter: "Well, my dearest, it's good to have something besides battles to worry about for a few minutes." However this rug caper turned out, it did nothing to sour Marshall on Eisenhower, who would go on to name him Supreme Allied Commander for the invasion of Europe in 1944.
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969), President . Autograph letter signed ("Ike"), as Supreme Commander, to Mamie Eisenhower, 2 March [ca. 1943]. 3 pages, 4to, with original envelope and free frank , SIGNED ON CENSOR'S STAMP ("Dwight D. Eisenhower").
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969), President . Autograph letter signed ("Ike"), as Supreme Commander, to Mamie Eisenhower, 2 March [ca. 1943]. 3 pages, 4to, with original envelope and free frank , SIGNED ON CENSOR'S STAMP ("Dwight D. Eisenhower"). "GEN. M. HAS BEEN WONDERFUL TO ME--NO MATTER WHAT HE MAY FIND IT NECESSARY TO DO IN THE FUTURE" A warm, emotional letter to his wife back home, with praise for his mentor, Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, and a comical scheme to redirect a present intended for Marshall back to Mamie. "I've already written you a rather long letter today," Ike says, "but upon re-reading the two I just received from you they made me feel so close to you that I just had to find a minute to write again." He praises Mamie for the "masterly way" she has handed all the press attention falling on her following her husband's promotion to head of the American forces in North Africa. Then, turning to a domestic problem he says: "I'm suffering some acute embarrassment about the rug. All this paragraph is highly secret..." Ike sent home a rug to Mamie, but then came upon another one that was "much nicer (and 3 times as expensive)." But somehow this nicer rug got promised to George Marshall and his wife. "Now, I have the one I want for you, but if I give it to Gen. G.C.M. I'm sending him something I truly wanted you to have. I'm stymied...What to do; what to do!" He then suggests various "screwy" schemes for switching the gifts. Eisenhower wants to please both Mamie and Marshall, because "Gen. M. has been wonderful to me--no matter what he may find it necessary to do in the future." Perhaps the real reason for Eisenhower's rug intrigues is disclosed by the line he writes in the last paragraph of this letter: "Well, my dearest, it's good to have something besides battles to worry about for a few minutes." However this rug caper turned out, it did nothing to sour Marshall on Eisenhower, who would go on to name him Supreme Allied Commander for the invasion of Europe in 1944.
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