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54 "Please, if...": Nanette Kutner to Bill [Robinson], 7 Nov. 1952, Box 25, MDE WH.

54 "I got...": MDE to Nanette Kutner, 15 Nov. 1952, Box 25, MDE WH.

55 Smaller than the office: DDE, At Ease (Garden City, NY, 1967), p. 73.

55 "Father was...": Ibid., p. 31.

56 "We were...": Ibid., p. 33.

56 "Our family...": Ibid., p. 37.

56 Wrote down the names: Ibid., p. 52.

56 Maladies: Fred I. Greenstein, The Hidden-Hand Presidency (New York, 1982), pp. 39-40.

56 "tough cooky": Kenneth S. Davis, Soldier of Democracy (Garden City, NY, 1945), p. 85.

56 "the grin": R.G. Tonkin in SatEP, 3 May 1952, p. 19.

56 "bawled like...": MSE OH, p. 25.

56 At one dance: DDE, At Ease, pp. 9-10.

57 "The management...": Alden Hatch, Red Carpet For Mamie Eisenhower (New York, 1956), p. 51.

57 "belle of...": Coronet, Aug . 1951, p. 57.

57 "the woman-hater...": DDE, At Ease, p. 113.

58 "just about...": Steve Neal, The Eisenhowers (lawrence, KS, 1978, 1984), p. 35.

58 "The boys...": Alden Hatch, Red Carpet, p. 62.

58 "You know...": American Magazine, June 1948, p. 35.

58 "He simply...": Neal, Eisenhowers, p. 36.

58 "all those lounge....": JNE, Special People (New York, 1977), p. 198.

58 "did not...": MDE, "If I Were a Bride Today," True Confessions, Nov. 1954, p. 16, in Box 542, PPF 2 DDE WHCF.

58 "a nobody...": Hatch, Red Carpet, p. 73.

58 finally had brothers: Davis, Soldier, p. 164.

58 "Come now...": Hatch, Red Carpet, p. 81.

58 the worst: Davis, Soldier, p. 166.

58 "Dwight has...": EE to MDE and DDE, 27 June 1956, Box 11, DDE Names.

58 "never heard...": DDE, At Ease, p. 31.

59 In his memoir: Ibid., p. 123.

59 "Your husband...": MDE, "If I Were a Bride," p. 19.

59 "You're not...": Lester David and Irene David, Ike and Mamie (New York, 1981), pp. 66-67.

59 "you must...": Ibid., p. 66.

59 "Just for that...": McCall's, Nov. 1950, p. 114.

59 "although parting...": David, Ike and Mamie, p. 94.

59 "spoiled brat": MDE, "If I Were a Bride," p. 160.

59 "Half the...": "How the Eisenhowers Budget," Box 9, Campaign Series, Ann C. Whitman Files, DDE MSS, DDE Lib.

60 "first real home": "Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower," p. 1, Box 9, Campaign Series, Whitman File.

60 "the greatest disappointment...": DDE, At Ease, p. 181.

60 "recovered... had to learn": DDE to EE, 14 Dec. 1956, Box 11, DDE Names.

60 "It was ironic...": American Magazine, June 1948, p. 104.

60 "You mean...": David, Ike and Mamie, pp. 91-92.

60 "The office...": American Magazine, June 1948, p. 35.

60 "I'll go...": Hatch, Red Carpet, p. 103.

60 "minimum accomodations...": Robert H. Ferrell, ed., The Eisenhower Diaries (New York, 1981), p. 35.

61 "Only a man...": DDE to MSE, 3 Jan. 1939 in Stephen Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2 vols. (New York, 1983, 1984), 1:104.

61 "They never...": JNE, Special, p. 201.

61 "first and most...": MDE, "If I Were a Bride," pp. 16, 19.

61 "I never...": JNE, Special, p. 202.

61 "It would have...": Neal, Eisenhowers, p. 38.

61 "full credit...": David, Ike and Mamie, p. 22.

61 "The loving relationship...": DDE, Letters to Mamie, John S.D. Eisenhower, ed. (Garden City, NY, 1978), p. 11.

61 "There were a...": JNE, Special, p. 199.

61 "encapsulated Life..." Lewis mumford in James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere (New York, 1993), p. 10.

62 "Ike was...": JNE, Special, p. 194.

62 "Don't you...": David, Ike and Mamie, p. 13.

62 "Gen. Ike's...": Clipping, c. 1943, Box 2, Personal Correspondence, MDE MSS. See also Susan M. Hartmann, The Homefront and Beyond (Boston, 1982), p. 23.

62 "American soldiers...": DDE to EE, 26 Sept. 1944, Box 172 DDE Pre.

62 500 to 700: William L. O'Neill, A Democracy at War (New York, 1993), p. 252.

62 "Soooooo--": Gladys and Cecil Brooks to DDE, 10 May 1943,p. 6, Box 8, DDE Pre.

62 "attempt at...": DDE to MSE, 10 July 1944, p. 1, Box 174, DDE Pre.

63 ugly black hairnet: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time (New York, 1994), p. 204.

63 "a nervous wreck": American Magazine, June 1948, p. 105.

63 "entirely too personal": DDE to Harry C. Butcher, 12 Oct. 1945, Box 16, DDE Pre.

63 "one of the...": Life, 13 Oct. 1952, p. 157.

63 "her nerves...": Frances "Mike" Moore to DDE, 16 May 1942, Box 175, DDE Pre.

63 proved less abstemious: Merriman Smith OH, pp. 11-13.

63 "calamitous": DDE to Ruth Butcher, 6 Apr. 1943, Box 16, DDE Pre.

63 "over three...": DDE to MDE, Teletype message to Stoner via Tully, 14 Dec. 1943, Box 173, DDE Pre. See also MDE to DDE, from Ordway signed Marshall, 18 Jan. 1943.

64 "rather lonely...": DDE to MSE, 24 July 1942, Box 174, DDE Pre.

64 "feminine companionship": DDE to Frances "Mike" Moore, 4 Dec. 1942, Box 175, DDE Pre.

64 "Kay, there's nobody...": David, Ike and Mamie, p. 147.

64 "Leave Kay...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 1:418.

64 "Of course I don't...": David, Ike and Mamie, p. 158.

64 "I love you...": Neal, Eisenhowers, p. 176.

64 "Stop worrying...": David, Ike and Mamie, p. 159.

64 "apparently you...": DDE to MDE, 29 Sept. 1945 in Ibid.

64 Ike feared: DDE to Kay Summersby, 28 July 1948, Box 112, DDE Pre.

65 Harry Truman: Merle Miller, Plain Speaking (New York, 1973) pp. 367-369.

65 Three years later...: See Kay Summersby Morgan, Past Forgetting (New York, 1976).

65 "no one...": DDE, Letters, p. 11.

65 Most historians: See, for example, Ambrose, Eisenhower, 1:285-286.

65 "Some men...": DDE to John Eisenhower, 26 Feb. 1943, Box 173, DDE Pre.

65 "having done...": DDE to Frances "Mike" Moore, 29 Apr. 1945, Box 175, DDE Pre.

66 "changed terrifically": JNE, Special, p. 202.

66 "Neither of us...": Carl Sferrazza Anthony, First Ladies, 2 vols. (New York, 1990), 1:504.

66 "belonged to...": JNE, Special, p. 202.

66 "my three...": David, Ike and Mamie, p. 112.

66 first fur coat: Ambrose, Eisenhower, 1:439.

66 "It seems...": DDE to MSE, 19 Dec. 1949, Box 174, DDE Pre.

66 "We had almost...": Howard Snyder, "Draft," pp. 14-15, Howard McCrum Snyder MSS, DDE Lib.

66 "the possible volume...": DDE to Thomas J. Watson, 14 June 1947, Box 122, DDE Pre.

66 "Ho Hum...": MDE to Margaret Chick, note on envelope of Anne Kennedy to MDE, 27 Mar. 1946, Box 173, DDE Pre.

66 "stay out...": Jock Lawrence to General Lanham, Memorandum, 10 Apr. 1951, Box 2, SHAPE Series, MDE MSS.

66 "There is about...": John Gunther, Eisenhower (New York, 1951, 1952), pp. 5-6.

66 "woman behind...": American Magazine, June 1948, pp. 34-35.

66 "a whole...": MDE, "A Wife's Big Job," clipping, Charlotte C. Marsh to MDE, 30 Mar. 1952, Box 1, SHAPE Series, MDE MSS.

67 "a good wife...": Coronet, Aug. 1951, p. 56. See also Ethel Klein, Gender Politics (Cambridge, MA, 1984), p. 44.

67 20 million...: Hartmann, Homefront, p. 8.

67 "her pet...": Coronet, Aug. 1951, p. 61.

67 "As an American...": "Message from Mrs. Eisenhower...." 3 Jan. 1952, Box 35, MDE WH.

67 She posed: McCall's, Nov. 1950, p. 30.

67 "the all-important...": DDE to Bill Robinson, 24 Nov. 1951, Box 99, DDE Pre.

67 "These days...": DDE to MSE, 27 May 1952, Box 174, DDE Pre.

67 would blossom: Still, it is an oversimplification to call their relationship "happy, uncomplicated, and old-fashioned." See Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:29.

68 "behind": SatEP, 27 Sept. 1952, p. 32.

68 "Thru the articles...": Helen E. Williams to MDE, c. Apr. 1952, Box 2, SHAPE Series, MDE MSS.

68 "this whole business...": DDE to Clifford Roberts, 19 May 1952, Box 98, DDE Pre.

68 "would never...": MDE to Florence E. Witter, 7 Aug. 1950, Box 173, DDE Pre.

68 "Bill, what...": Ellis Slater OH, p. 11.

68 "My mind...": MDE to Mrs. C. R. Lehner, 21 Apr. 1952, Box 1, SHAPE Series, MDE MSS.

68 "If each...": Marquis Childs, Eisenhower (New York, 1958), p. 138.

68 Only 31 percent: Time, 2 June 1952, p. 21.

68 "Well, I know...": Smith OH, p. 10.

68 never posed: Katherine G. Howard OH, 5:479.

69 "If he's...": Ibid., 5:355.

69 "on a train...": Ibid., 5:436.

69 "THEY LIKE...": Life, 13 Oct. 1952, p. 149.

69 "I leave all...": BosH, 4 Nov. 1952, p. 3.

69 "Of course the...": Life, 13 Oct. 1952, p. 158.

69 "talk lady-talk": New York Journal-American, 9 Nov. 1952, L6.

69 "the sweetheart": Howard OH 1:73.

69 "The Sunshine...": See "Campaign Memorabilia," Box 5, MJM MSS, DDE Lib.

69 "Mamie...": "Eisenhowerr News of Special Interest to Women," 12 May 1952, No. 4.

69 "win the crowd...": Merlo J. Pusey, Eisenhower the President (New York, 1956), p. 26.

69 "The feeling...": Life, 13 Oct. 1952, p. 150.

69 "Mamie won't...": Time, 2 June 1952, p. 21.

69 "all the highly...": Life, 13 Oct. 1952, p. 158.

70 "I do all...": Howard OH, 5:415.

70 "All they talked...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 1:546.

70 "Politics is...": James C. Hagerty OH, p. 44.

70 often shelter: See Greenstein, Hidden Hand, p. 64.

70 "astonished": DDE to William H. Burnham, 13 Sept. 1952, Box 3, DDE Names.

70 "out of character": MDE to Marjorie Davies, 11 Oct. 1952, Box 10, MDE WH.

70 "all-important...": MDE to Nanette Kutner, 10 Nov. 1952, Box 25, MDE WH.

70 "a bunch of...": BosH, 4 Nov. 1952, p. 3.

70 "Fashion needs...": Daily Times Herald (Dallas), 3 Nov. 1952, 6:5.

70 "Mamie must...": David, Ike and Mamie, pp. 178-179.

70 "I think she...": AMG to DDE, 1 Nov. 1952, Box 1, AMG MSS.

70 "you're doing...": Albert Jacobs OH, p. 25.

70 "You are a dear...": MDE to AMG, 17 Nov. 1952, Box 15, MDE WH.

71 "HISTORY KNOWS...": T.D. Deforest to MDE, 14 Nov. 1961, Box 1, Personal Correspondence, MDE MSS.

71 Mamie was upstairs: Ellis Slater, The Ike I Knew (privately published, 1980), p. 27.

71 "NOW...": Life, 13 Oct. 1952, p. 150.

71 "will eventually...": DDE to EE, 26 Sept. 1944, Box 172, DDE Pre.

71 "convictions": DDE, White House Years, 2 vols. (Garden City, NY, 1963-1965), 1:51.

71 "You always have...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:41.

72 "a real homey...": WasP, 21 Jan. 1953, p. 1.

73 "This is a different...": Jay Franklin, Republicans on the Potomac (New York, 1953), pp. 18-19.

73 "a remarkable woman...": New York Journal-American, 9 Nov. 1952, L6.

73 "that the home...": Wichita Eagle, clipping in Mrs. William W. McCammon to MDE, c. 28 Nov. 1952, Box 28, MDE WH.

73 "invaluable ... indispensable...": DDE quoted in Wilton B. Persons to Shirly M. Baronie, 2 Apr. 1959, Box 547, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

73 "Mamie's biggest...": David, Ike and Mamie, pp. 240-241.

73 "Ike and I...": MDE to Charlotte Duruz, 2 Mar. 1953, Box 12, MDE WH.

73 "A smile...": MD E to Louise Caffey, 10 June 1953, Box 5, MDE WH.

73 "White House takes...": MDE to Maud Hurd, 7 Aug. 1953, Box 21, MDE WH.

73 "107-room...": BH&G, Aug. 1960, p. 48.

73 "I am never...": MDE to Nell Woodruff, 14 Feb. 1953, Box 47, MDE WH.

72 "little violet...": Eileen Archibold to MDE, 4 May 1953, Box 2, MDE WH.

73 "meet[ing]...": MDE to William H. Burnham, 19 May 1953, Box 5, MDE WH.

73 sponsored dozens: Barbara [Eisenhower?] to Mr. [Thomas] Stephens, 12 Mar. 1959, Box 547, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

73 "I feel that...": MDE to Mrs. Doris Beam, 4 Feb. 1954, Box 3, MDE WH.

73 "Who was...": clipping, 7 Nov. 1960, in BWT VF.

73 "Well, I'm glad...": LAT, 3 Feb. 1956, p. 6.

73 "personal involvement...": MJM to Mrs. J. L. Paterson [draft], c. 12 Mar. 1956, Box 544, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

73 "not take part...": MJM to Max Chambers, 7 July 1954, Box 542, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

73 no speeches: MJM to Mr.Ancher Nelsen, 12 Apr. 1954, Box 542, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

73 "make out-of-town...": Ferne Hudson to Homer H. Gruenther, 12 May 1958, Box 546, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

73 "ironclad": James C. Hagerty to Mrs. Harold S. Talbott, 1 Apr. 1953, Box 540, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

73 "precedent...": James C. Hagerty to MJM, 30 Mar. 1955, Box 543, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

73 "look after Ike": Mamie Eisenhower," clipping, 28 Nov. `1952 in Bess McCammon to MDE, Box 28, MDE WH.

73 "Every woman...": E.K. Thompson to Henry Luce, 26 Apr. 1958, Box 35, MDE WH.

73 "Do let...": Helen Reid to MDE, 19 June 1958, Box 36, MDE WH.

73 "denied access...": Murray Snyder to MJM, 31 Jan. 1955, Box 35, MDE WH.

73 "on stale...": Fleur Cowles to MJM, 28 Jan. 1955, Box 35, MDE WH.

74 "respond to any...": MDE Statement, 21 Mar. 1953, Box 41, MDE WH.

74 "constant merry-go-round...": MDE to William H. Burnham, 19 May 1953, Box 5, MDE WH.

74 "that every woman...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:72.

74 "Now look here...": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 36.

74 "Mrs. Eisenhower has...": Murray Snyder to Miss Rogers, 7 Apr. 1953, Box 540, PPF2, DDE WHCF. See also Betty BoydCaroli, First Ladies (New York, 1987), p. 218.

74 "IKE'S MAMIE...": ChiT, 26 Sept. 1954, 1:2.

74 "as gracious...": Henry Aurand OH, pp. 25-26.

74 Requests: See file "February 1953," Box 540, PPF2, DDE WHCF. See also Paula Baker, "The Domestication of Politics," American Historical Review, 89 (June 1984): 620-647.

75 "Propped up...": BH&G, Aug. 1960, p. 79.

75 "words in my...": MDE to Grace Gruenther, 15 July 1954, Box 16, MDE WH.

75 "mulling over...": MDE to AMG, 26 Aug. 1953, Box 15, MDE WH.

75 "brought me...": MDE to Louise Cannon, 9 Apr. 1953, Box 6, MDE WH.

75 "the purple...": MDE to Louise Caffey, 4 Sept. 1956, Box 5, MDE WH.

75 "The latest news...": MDE to Louise Caffey, 31 Mar. 1954, Box 5, MDE WH. See also NYT, 31 Mar. 1954, p. 1.

75 "Because of the Israeli...": MDE to Mabel McKay, 20 Feb. 1957, Box 29, MDE WH.

76 "walked with...": Minneapolis Tribune, 27 Sept. 1954, p. 1.

76 "This is a slave's...": DDE to EE, 3 Feb. 1954. Box 11, DDE Names.

76 "At last I've...": David, Ike and Mamie, p. 194.

76 "and pat Ike...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:29.

76 "and each time...": JNE, Special, p. 203.

76 "To me...": MSE OH, 1:13-14.

76 "rebuild that...": DDE to William Pawley, 3 Aug. 1953, Box 25, DDE Names.

76 "to give her...": DDE to MSE, 23 Apr. 1953, Box 12, DDE Names.

76 "Mamie occasionally...": DDE, At Ease, p. 359.

77 "dream house": MDE to Rosamond Berry, 16 Aug. 1955, Box 3, MDE WH.

77 "loath to leave...": MDE to Mrs. Josephine Bay, 22 Aug. 1955, Box 3, MDE WH.

77 "No man...": Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier (New York, 1985), p. 231.

77 "I never pretended...": JNE, Special, p. 203.

77 "Sometimes I feel...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:75.

77 "ward off...": MDE to Maud Hurd, 7 Aug. 1953, Box 21, MDE WH.

77 "complete rest...": MDE to Louis Caffey, 16 Sept. 1953, Box 5, MDE WH.

77 "Today is...": MDE to Caroline Walker, 26 Aug. 1953, Box 44, MDE WH.

78 "be alone...": MDE to Kurt and Peggy Heilbronn, 18 Nov. 1961, Box 1, MDE Personal Correspondence, MDE MSS.

78 "I am almost...": DDE to AMG, 26 Feb. 1953, Box 1, AMG MSS.

78 "Anglo-Saxon...": DDE to Bill Robinson, 12 July 1951, p. 3, Box 99, DDE Pre.

78 "Makes one...": Ferrell, Diaries, p. 145.

78 "congenial friends": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 83.

78 "boss of the money": Marty Snyder, My Friend Ike (New York, 1956), p. 207.

79 "Each mention...": Minneapolis Tribune, 13 July 1957, p. 20.

79 "the outstanding American...": Slater OH, p. 22.

79 "The informality...": DDE to Cliff Roberts, 25 July 1957,Box 28, DDE Names.

79 "the boss": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 151.

79 "but the only...": Priscilla Slater in Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 57.

79 "These evenings...": Sherman Adams, Firsthand Report (New York, 1961), p. 428.

79 ritualized...: Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America (New York, 1996), p. 214.

80 "never been...": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 74.

80 "beautiful, intelligent...": DDE to John Eisenhower, 18 Jan. 1947, Box 173, DDE Pre.

80 "far more...": Ferrell, Eisenhower Diaries, p. 294.

80 "gabfests...": DDE to Mrs. R.F. Lucier, 20 Oct. 1943, Box 69, DDE Pre.

80 "Where are...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:29.

80 never called...: Gwendolyn King OH, p. 8.

80 "most devoted...": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 178.

80 "Ann had grown: See Robert J. Donovan, Confidential Secretary (New York, 1988), pp. 14-15, 161-162; Ann Whitman OH, pp. 18-19; Jaqueline Cochran OH, pp. 187-188, 206, 251-252.

80 "One of the..." DDE to MSE, 12 Sept. 1955, Box 12, DDE Names.

80 "feminine, really luscious...": Priscilla Slater in Slater, Ike I Knew, pp. 57-58.

80 "Mamie wants...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:73.

81 "years of endurance...": DDE to Everett and Kate Hughes, et al. 4 June 1949, Box 173, DDE Pre.

81 "It's the levity...": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 184.

81 "cheer water...": AMG to MDE, 21 June 1956, Box 16, MDE WH.

81 "my favorite..." MDE to Gracie and AMG, 16 Nov. 1961, Box 3, AMG MSS.

81 "bring[ing] me...": MDE to AMG, 25 June 1956, Box 16, MDE WH.

81 five hundred cases: See "Alcohol," Bulk Mail, DDE WHCF.

81 "that colored...": Kendall K. Hoyt to Charles Willis, 23 Sept. 1953, Box 541, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

81 "boozed it...": National Enquirer, 7 June 1959, clipping, Letter of Helen T. Geyser, 23 June 1959, Box 547, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

81 "a downright lie": James C. Hagerty to Ernie Barbush, 14 July 1959, Box 547, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

81 "nurse an old-fashioned...": Smith OH, p. 13. See also King OH, p. 11.

81 "the things he...": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 28.

81 "How different...": Ibid., p. 71.

81 "the office of...": DDE to MSE, 9 Oct. 1953, Box 12, DDE Names.

81 "Have you no...": Emile de Antonio and Daniel Talbot, Point of Order! (New York, 1964), p. 95. For a contrasting viewsee Greenstein, Hidden Hand, chap. 5.

82 "The only reason...": DDE to EE, 17 Sept. 1956, Box 11, DDE Names.

82 "colored...": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 149.

82 "the militant...": Cliff Roberts to DDE, 23 July 1952, Box 27, DDE Names.

82 bemoaned the divorce: Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 200.

82 "so-called human interest": DDE to MSE, 9 Oct. 1953, p. 3, Box 12, DDE Names.

82 "things of importance...": DDE to Bill Robinson, 4 Aug. 1954, Box 29, DDE Names. See also Craig Allen, Eisenhower and the Mass Media (Chapel Hill, NC, 1993), pp. 6-9.

82 "important and established...": WasS, 7 Jan. 1954, A20.

82 "a production...": SatEP, 26 May 1956, pp. 27, 119.

83 In 1958 pollsters: George H. Gallup, The Gallup Polls, 3 vols. (New York, 1972) 2:1569.

83 a plurality approved: Ibid., 2:1116-1117.

83 "said he assumed...": WasP, 26 Sept. 1955, p. 2.

84 "don't you put...": Hagerty OH, 4:290.

84 "Tell the truth...": DDE, White House, 1:538.

84 "the ideal wife...": Harry A. Bullis to MDE, 10 Nov. 1955, Box 5, MDE WH.

84 "deputy Husband": Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives (New York, 1980, 1982), p. 38.

84 "You are a gallant...": Helen Reid to MDE, 29 Nov. 1957, Box 36, MDE WH.

84 "Funny thing...": Adams, Firsthand, p. 188.

84 "When he feels...": MDE to Benjamin F. Caffey, 6 Oct. 1955, Box 5, MDE WH.

85 "We conversed...": DDE, White House, 1:542.

85 "I have tried...": MDE to Joshena Ingersol, 29 Sept. 1955, Box 22, MDE WH.

85 "underwent an operation...": "Mrs. Eisenhower's Operation,8-6-57," James C. Hagerty statement, 6 Aug. 1957, Box 5, James C. Hagerty MSS, DDE Lib.

85 "a gynecologist...": Des Moines Register, 7 Aug. 1957, p. 1.

85 Dr. Snyder told...: Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:281.

85 Mamie insisted: Arthur Nevins OH, p. 72.*** "Mamie's judgment...": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 108.

85 "Mamie simply...": DDE to Nettie Jones, 17 Dec. 1955, Box 20, DDE Names.

86 "Mamie is a wonderful...": DDE to Harry Bullis, 2 Oct.1956, Box 3, DDE Names.

86 "the vital importance...": The Crusader, issue #4, in Box 5,Young and Rubicam, Inc. MSS, DDE Lib.

86 "to enforce integration...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:420.

86 "that all this anti-Negro...": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 158.

86 "Alleged inter-service...": DDE to Harry Butcher, [c. 7 Nov. 1957], Box 3, DDE Names.

87 Only 17...: 26 June 1953, Gallup, Polls, 2:1151.

87 "overdoing": USNWR, 23 Aug. 1957, p. 61.

87 "part-time": America, 14 Feb. 1959, p. 565.

87 "luxurious beauty...": Life, 10 Mar. 1958, p. 54.

87 "I think when ...": SFChr, 26 Feb. 1958, p. 10.

87 Harry Truman...: Childs, Eisenhower, p. 276.

87 "squirrel cage": MDE to Eileen Archibold, 5 Nov. 1957, Box 2 MDE WH.

87 "deal almost...": Ed Wimmer to MDE, 2 Apr. 1957; MJM to Wimmer, 3 July 1957, Box 546, PPF2, DDE WHCF.

87 "entered the store...": Ida Kaufman to DDE, 24 Sept. 1958; Henry Roemer McPhee to Ida Kaufman, 15 Oct. 1958, Box 546, PPF 2, DDE WHCF.

88 "the last years...": Stephen Hess OH, pp. 31-32.

88 "younger than...": BH&G, June 1955, p. 70.

88 "Grandma Lives...": National Business Woman, Aug. 1957, p. 7.

88 "the worst year...": Slater, Ike I Knew, p. 180.

88 "contract...falliable": McCall's, Apr. 1955, p. 91.

88 "The Eisenhowers...": BH&G, Aug. 1960, p. 49.

88 "Barbara has been...": MDE to Betsy Whitney, 16 Dec. 1959, Box 45, MDE WH.

89 "does not like...": DDE to Sigurd Larmon, 13 Oct. 1956, Box 20, DDE Names.

89 "the next President...": RN, 28 July 1960 in Gregory Bush, Campaign Speeches of American Presidential Candidates (New York, 1976, 1985), p. 105.

89 "was not up...": Ambrose, Eisenhower, 2:602.

89 A month after: 13 Jan. 1961, Gallup, Polls, 3:1701.

89 "my constant problems": DDE to Elivera Doud, 13 July 1959, Box 9, DDE Names.

89 "It was wonderful...": Betsy Whitney to MDE, 4 Mar. 1953, Box 45, MDE WH.