<--PREV Doc #79  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #81 Document #80; March 13, 1953 To Philip Young 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 2: "A number of misunderstandings": Party and International Struggles   Dear Phil:1 It was truly gratifying to learn from your recent letter that The Uneducated, the first major study growing out of the Conservation of Human Resources Project, is about to be published.2 Dedication of the book to General Snyder is peculiarly fitting;3 and I am delighted to know that you intend to mark with a ceremony the occasion of the book's publication. As you know, it was my hope at the time the Conservation Project was established that full use could be made of General Snyder's rich experience in all phases of military-medical manpower problems. Shortly after your letter arrived, I received a copy of the book. So far I have only found time to dip into it. I can see, however, that it has accomplished our original purpose of getting the facts about the wastage of our human resources before the public. The objectivity of the presentation will encourage the development of constructive policies to avoid such wastage in the future. I am looking forward to the completion of the other major studies which I know are now far advanced. These represent a unique achievement in cooperation between business, government, and our University. Sincerely 1 Eisenhower had named the longtime Columbia University dean head of the Civil Service Commission on March 10; the Senate confirmed him eight days later. Robert L. Schulz assisted in the drafting of this letter. 2 On March 11, enclosing this study of illiteracy in America, Young had outlined plans for a publication party at the Columbia University Club on March 20 and requested a brief message from Eisenhower to mark the occasion. On the Conservation of Human Resources Project, begun during Eisenhower's tenure as university president, see Galambos, Columbia University, nos. 155 and 1121. 3 Major General Howard McCrum Snyder, Sr., the President's physician, had been associated with Eisenhower since 1946 and served as medical research associate on the Human Resources Project (ibid., no. 1). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Philip Young, 13 March 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 80. 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/80.cfm <--PREV Doc #79  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #81

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