TAPE DICTATED sy sunny ISENHOWER Dear Daddy, As you requested, I am sending you some remembrances of my fred When I look back over the wedding, I still feel that it was the happiest day of my life, and I will ae be so grateful to you and Mommy for making it a perfect day. All through the weeks of preparation, jammed between the the election and December 22nd, you and Mommy could not have been more supportive and encouraging, with all kinds of suggestions and help when I needed it, and yet -- what I realize now from my 27 year old vantage point -- you both had an extraordinary ability to let me plan the wedding myself and to never let me feel that you were interferring. (In fact, you never did interfer!) The only area in which you kind of snuck a fast one by Mother and me was when you, at the last minute, a week before the wedding, invited the entire Cabinet and their wives. As you remember, Mother and I and Barbara Eisenhower had a terrible time keeping the guest list to 400, because Mamie Eisenhower had sent in a list of about 200 people¢ Barbara was upset, because that cut into the number of people that she and John could invite to the wedding. Your inviting the Cabinet was one concession to history and to the reality of a President's daughter's wedding.Page 2 David and I insisted that no members of the press be present at the wedding, and none were. This applied to photographers as well. If you had any regrets about our decision not to have the wedding in the White House, you never expressed them. I do remember, however, that we had a little talk, at the time when we were making the final plans for the wedding about whether or not someday I would regret not being married in the White House. I think you were a little wistful about it, hoping that I would want the privilege and the thrill of being married in the White House. But, I have never had any regrets about the church wedding. Dr. Peale's church played such an important part in our lives when we lived in New York, between 1963 and 1968. It was a scene of many many happy family times together, and it seemed only right that David and I be married in that church, with our friends The night of the rehearsal dinner and the rehearsal at the church, you first noticed the flu bug. I will be forever grateful, however, that you didn't let me know how sick you really felt. And, I wasn't aware until the next morning that Dr. Delucha had to come over and give you some medication for the flu and your fever, Saturday night.When I was making plans for the wedding, I told you that I wanted to change into my wedding dress at the church so that I wouldn't take a chance of ruining the dress on the 20 minute drive from our apartment to the church. The bridesmaids all were planning to dress at the church, and on-the wedding day they did just that. 1 am glad now that you were sweet and sentimental and told me how much it would mean to you if we rode to the church together. I think that drive to the church was one of the happiest parts of the day. Do you remember that very large crowds lined the whole way? All the press coverage of the wedding was outside of the church. There were no camera men to record this number of people in the crowds, as we drove from 62nd to 37th on Sth Avenue. One thing that made the drive happy was that the people along the route laughed and smiled. Because neither you nor I were at all nervous -- the ride was exhilarating and fun. I surprised you at the foot of the altar by giving you a kiss as you gave me away. At the reception, the first person through the line was Adele Rogers. She had her foot in a cast. The guest list ranged from Thomas Dewey to my housemother in