FIRST LADY MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/05/1968 - HFSID 295468
Price: $240.00
MAMIE DOUD EISENHOWER
Letter to a friend with handwritten postscript, discussing her
grandson's wedding and other family matters, written from Walter Reed Hospital
three months before Ike's death
Typed Letter signed: "Love to you & Muriel,/Mamie Eisenhower",
1 page, 6½x9. Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1968 December 5.
To "Dear Frances" [Strecker], Glencoe, Illinois, in full:
"Thank you for your recent letter from Denver where you were spending
Thanksgiving with your mother and for all the clippings which you put in about
the children and so forth. Naturally, we are all excited about Julie and David's
wedding and I have great hopes that I will be able to attend. It all depends on
how well Ike is feeling. Anne's wedding was a very lovely affair. I motored up
and back in the same day which was really very enervating for me. If I can go to
New York, I will have to take two days and two nights. I talked to Barbie last
night. Her mother has had a heart attack and her father had a stroke. They are
both very ill people and Colonel Thompson is in the hospital. Poor Barbie is so
worried about them. She flew down to Gainesville to see if she could help out
with getting a housekeeper". Accompanied by original mailing
envelope.On July 1, 1916, 25-year-old Second Lieutenant Dwight D.
Eisenhower (1890-1969) and 19-year-old Mamie Geneva Doud (1896-1979) were
married in Denver, Colorado. They had two sons: Dwight Doud Eisenhower
(1917-1920) and John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (born in 1923). As an Army wife
for 37 years, Mamie grew accustomed to entertaining groups of influential
people, a talent she drew upon during her eight years as the White House
hostess (1953-1961). In their 53 years of married life, the Eisenhower's
lived in 33 homes; their last in Gettysburg was the only home they owned
together. During Ike's final illness, Mamie moved into Walter Reed Army
Hospital to be with him during the final months of his life. "Barbie" was
the Presidential couple's daughter in law, Barbara (Thompson) Eisenhower),
married to son John. David Eisenhower, President Eisenhower's grandson was
married to Richard Nixon's daughter Julie on December 22, 1968. Dwight D.
Eisenhower died on March 28, 1969. From the collection of George Strecker,
an advertising executive at the Chicago Tribune who became close to
the Eisenhower's through his wife, Frances, a long-time friend with Mamie Doud
Eisenhower. Multiple mailing folds. Lightly toned. Fine condition.
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