<--PREV Doc #1098  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1100 Document #1099; October 5, 1954 To Harry Amos Bullis Series: EM, AWF, Name Series ; Category: Personal 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 Harry: Thank you for your note. As of now, I should say the prospects of my being able to come to Minnesota are practically zero.1 On the other hand, I am to appear during the next five weeks some five or six times on television. I shall certainly do my best to be helpful to the Republican candidates who are announcing their readiness to support the Administration.2 It would be impossible for me to exaggerate the degree of interest I have in Bjornson's campaign against Humphrey. I am for him hook, line and sinker.3 With warm personal regard, Sincerely 1 Bullis had written on October 1 (AWF/N) that "the clincher we will absolutely need is your appearance here . . . with your arm around Val Bjornson." Kristjan Valdemar Bjornson (B.A. University of Minnesota 1930), Minnesota's state treasurer since 1951, was the Republican senatorial candidate running against Democratic incumbent Hubert H. Humphrey. 2 On the President's radio and television appearances in October see nos. 1073, 1093, and 1102. On his election eve remarks to the nation see Public Papers of the Presidents: Eisenhower, 1954, pp. 892-99, and New York Times, Nov. 2, 1954. 3 As it turned out, Humphrey would be reelected for a second six-year term on November 2, 1954. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Personal To Harry Amos Bullis, 5 October 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1099. 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/1099.cfm <--PREV Doc #1098  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1100

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