<--PREV Doc #1058  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1060 Document #1059; September 9, 1954 To Milton Stover Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, Name Series ; Category: Personal and confidential The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VI: Crises Abroad, Party Problems at Home; September 1954 to December 1954 Chapter 132: Asia: A "boiling kettle of possible trouble"   Dear Milton: I have your letter, and perhaps I soon may be able to write to you at some length about it.1 Foster is to stop here next Sunday afternoon on his way back to Washington.2 From what I have heard, I am perfectly certain that your trustees will not be displeased if you take five or ten days off to go to part of the Rio conference.3 Actually, of course, they should be highly pleased that their President is in so much demand. I know of no other great university where the trustees would fail to impress upon their president that they look upon his job as one that required a certain amount of public service outside the campus.4 I will write you again when I have something more definite in mind. As ever 1 Milton had written confidentially on September 7 (AWF/N) of his interest in accepting an assignment to attend the upcoming Rio Conference (for background see no. 997; see also telephone conversation, Eisenhower to Smith, Sept. 9, 1954, AWF/D). He and Secretary of State Dulles had been coordinating plans to attend this meeting (see no. 1045). 2 On September 12, following the SEATO conference in Manila, Secretary of State Dulles would visit Eisenhower in Denver (on the conference see no. 1040; on the vacation see no. 888). 3 "I'll gladly risk the displeasure of my trustees, though I think they will be all right about it," Milton had written the President. For background on Milton's 1953 goodwill mission to Latin America see no. 506. For developments see no. 1124. 4 On Milton's career see Stephen E. Ambrose and Richard H. Immerman, Educational Statesman. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal and confidential To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 9 September 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1059. 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/1059.cfm <--PREV Doc #1058  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1060

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