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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Autograph letter signed ("Ike"), to Mamie Eisenhower, 22 November [1944]. 2 pages, 4to.
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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Autograph letter signed ("Ike"), to Mamie Eisenhower, 22 November [1944]. 2 pages, 4to.
"THE FIGHTING AND DYING GO ON AND THE END IS NOT YET"
"'CIVILIZATION' IS NOT PRETTY, WHEN IT RESORTS TO WAR..." A war-weary Eisenhower writes his wife Mamie about his trouble buying Christmas presents, about his eagerness for the postwar chapter of his life to begin, and, above all, his revulsion at the gruesome realities of war. "Well sweet I'd like to thinks that this mess would be over soon, so I could come home. But the fighting and the dying go on--and the end is not yet. 'Civilization' is not pretty, when it resorts to war. Anyway, some day victory will be ours, and I'll come a running! What we do from then on will be a question, but at least we can do it together."
The pressures of his job are also wearing: "I've been in my main hq for several days but so blankety blank busy that I've had no moment to call my own. I've made radio recordings, attended conferences here, there & everywhere, had dozens of appts., besides regular work. Sometimes things really get hectic." He hasn't been able to buy a Christmas present for his son John, and sends Mamie a check for $25 to buy something "from me!...Your own present was found for me by a Frenchman. it is running an awful chance to buy a lady anything in the 'clothes' category, but I had such good luck with the vicuna coat that I decided to chance it again..." One of the most expressive of Ike's wartime letters to Mamie.
"THE FIGHTING AND DYING GO ON AND THE END IS NOT YET"
"'CIVILIZATION' IS NOT PRETTY, WHEN IT RESORTS TO WAR..." A war-weary Eisenhower writes his wife Mamie about his trouble buying Christmas presents, about his eagerness for the postwar chapter of his life to begin, and, above all, his revulsion at the gruesome realities of war. "Well sweet I'd like to thinks that this mess would be over soon, so I could come home. But the fighting and the dying go on--and the end is not yet. 'Civilization' is not pretty, when it resorts to war. Anyway, some day victory will be ours, and I'll come a running! What we do from then on will be a question, but at least we can do it together."
The pressures of his job are also wearing: "I've been in my main hq for several days but so blankety blank busy that I've had no moment to call my own. I've made radio recordings, attended conferences here, there & everywhere, had dozens of appts., besides regular work. Sometimes things really get hectic." He hasn't been able to buy a Christmas present for his son John, and sends Mamie a check for $25 to buy something "from me!...Your own present was found for me by a Frenchman. it is running an awful chance to buy a lady anything in the 'clothes' category, but I had such good luck with the vicuna coat that I decided to chance it again..." One of the most expressive of Ike's wartime letters to Mamie.