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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Autograph letter signed ("Ike"), as Supreme Commander, to Mamie Eisenhower, 21 April [1943]. 2 pages, 4to.
"HE MAY HAVE GOTTEN SOMETHING OUT OF THE MEETING. I DIDN'T"
"I'M FED UP WITH THIS HEADQUARTERS". Eisenhower grumbles to his wife about the endless meetings packed into his schedule, most of them seemingly photo opportunities for visiting dignitaries: "...My day is crowded with appointments. Looks like I am to have someone in each fifteen minutes until lunch, and after that I have a long conference with a French politician. How I hate some of these talks that, so far as I can see, are merely designed to help someone's personal ambitions." Drawing a line under that paragraph, Eisenhower resumes the letter some time later: "One has just gone. He may have gotten something out of the meeting. I didn't. In fact I'm fed up with this headquarters for the moment. Maybe that's the reason I look forward to my trips. Thank the lord they are necessary...But I do want you to know that the thicker things get, the more I think of you! I love you all the time, -- and how I miss you! Don't forget me..."
The battle for North Africa was reaching its climax. Patton's II Corps linked up with Alexander's forces in Southern Tunisia two weeks earlier, and one day following this letter the Americans and British began their coordinated attacks on Bizerte and Tunis. All of Tunisia was in Allied hands by May 15, and the Allies wrapped up an astonishing 250,000 German and Italian prisoners.
"HE MAY HAVE GOTTEN SOMETHING OUT OF THE MEETING. I DIDN'T"
"I'M FED UP WITH THIS HEADQUARTERS". Eisenhower grumbles to his wife about the endless meetings packed into his schedule, most of them seemingly photo opportunities for visiting dignitaries: "...My day is crowded with appointments. Looks like I am to have someone in each fifteen minutes until lunch, and after that I have a long conference with a French politician. How I hate some of these talks that, so far as I can see, are merely designed to help someone's personal ambitions." Drawing a line under that paragraph, Eisenhower resumes the letter some time later: "One has just gone. He may have gotten something out of the meeting. I didn't. In fact I'm fed up with this headquarters for the moment. Maybe that's the reason I look forward to my trips. Thank the lord they are necessary...But I do want you to know that the thicker things get, the more I think of you! I love you all the time, -- and how I miss you! Don't forget me..."
The battle for North Africa was reaching its climax. Patton's II Corps linked up with Alexander's forces in Southern Tunisia two weeks earlier, and one day following this letter the Americans and British began their coordinated attacks on Bizerte and Tunis. All of Tunisia was in Allied hands by May 15, and the Allies wrapped up an astonishing 250,000 German and Italian prisoners.