Ike and Mamie / Lester David and Irene David 107 p.

The Douds were well off financially.  When Mamie Doud married Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1916 he was only a soldier and a poor one at that.  In their 53 years of marriage, they dealt with the tragic loss of their first born, their many army-ordered separations, and, rumors of Ike's affair with a young woman (which this book squelches).  Mamie learned to thrive with Ike's situations be it little money, poor base housing, and the separations.  After he died, she mourned him.  When a state of Ike was placed in front of his Gettysburg campus office, Mamie told Steve Neal of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "I always speak to him when I pass it." A study of marriage that is a tribute to these two.