<--PREV Doc #29  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #31 Document #30; February 10, 1953 To Stanley Hoflund High Series: EM, AWF, Name Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part I: Charting a New Course; January 1953 to April 1953 Chapter 1: Developing a spirit of teamwork   Dear Stanley:1 The rather startling suggestion in your letter of the ninth will receive--I promise--serious consideration.2 Thanks for sending it along. I enjoyed seeing you.3 When you come back to Washington, be sure to drop in. Sincerely 1 Senior editor at Reader's Digest and a Methodist lay leader, High had served as one of Eisenhower's speechwriters during the presidential campaign (Galambos, Columbia University; and Galambos, NATO and the Campaign of 1952, nos. 858 and 922). 2 "Because of the desirability of strengthening the feeling and hope that now, at long last, we can begin to give first thought to the things that unite, rather than the things which divide us, and thus go forward together," High had written the President (AWF/N), "I should like to suggest that, prior to departing on his world tour, Adlai Stevenson be invited to the White House and that he be asked to make a report to you of his findings. If precedent is required, there is one in Roosevelt's 1942 approval of Wendell Willkie's `One World' tour." For Stevenson's White House visit see no. 42. 3 High thanked Eisenhower for the "opportunity to talk" on Friday, but the President's appointment book contains no mention of a meeting between the two on February 6. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Stanley Hoflund High, 10 February 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 30. 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/30.cfm <--PREV Doc #29  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #31

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