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Document
#1043; August 30, 1954
To Nancy Morrow Fagg
Series:
EM, WHCF, Confidential File: UN
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Personal and confidential
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume
XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way
Part
V: Maintaining "a united defense"; April 1954 to August 1954
Chapter
131: The "men in the Kremlin are not to be trusted"
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Dear Mrs. Fagg: Thank you for your letter of the twenty-third.1 I am always truly appreciative of an honest expression of opinions, particularly since of late I find it is a commoditiy that is very rare indeed. I can only say that while the political facts of life sometimes bewilder and even sadden me, I do earnestly attempt to follow my own conscience and conceptions of right in what to do.
In the instance to which you refer, circumstances which were originally unknown to me forced a decision that was unpalatable--but some day when I get a chance to tell you about it you will understand that I did not sacrifice principle.
I need scarcely assure you that I have the greatest respect and admiration for your father. It is a privilege to know a man of his courage and statesmanship.
With best wishes, and again my thanks for writing. Sincerely
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To Nancy Morrow Fagg,
30 August 1954.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1043.
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/1043.cfm
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