Presidential Papers, Doc#1451 To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 1 June 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Document #1451; June 1, 1955
To Milton Stover Eisenhower
Series: EM, AWF, Name Series
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part VIII: Toward "statesmanship of a high order"; June 1955 to November 1955
Chapter 16: Summitry at Geneva

 

Dear Milton: Paul Hoffman has developed an idea that you could do our country a lot of good by making a good will trip to the newly organized democracies in Southeast Asia.1 I think he has in mind Japan, the Philippines, and possibly Korea. Further south would be Burma, Indonesia, Ceylon, India and Pakistan. He thinks such a good will trip would be highly advantageous to our country and that no one else could do it so well as you. I have not discussed this matter with advisers but I should like for you to think it over to determine whether you would think it in the realm of possibility.2

With warm regard, As ever

1 Hoffman and Arthur Eisenhower had eaten lunch with the President on this same day.

2 Milton was receptive to the idea. He would tell Eisenhower that Vice-President Nixon, former U.S. Ambassador to India Chester Bowles, and one or two others had also suggested the trip, and he had been thinking about the possibility. "They have argued that the leaders and peoples there would feel as those of Latin America, namely that your sending a brother indicated your deep personal interest" (Milton Eisenhower to Eisenhower, June 6, 1955, AWF/N). This particular trip would not, however, take place.

Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 1 June 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1451. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1451.cfm

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