<--PREV Doc #1118  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1120 Document #1119; October 22, 1954 To Edgar Newton Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, Name Series 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 Ed: I agree with every word you say in your letter of October twentieth.1 My own opinion is that if I could get someone to put enough steam behind it, the plan would be completely successful. Whether or not the people responsible for this kind of work will really develop the enthusiasm and skill required to reach down, through successive echelons of the Party, to every single voter who favors the Administration--and do it in a single week--is something we shall have to find out.2 Please tell Lucy I am proud of her efforts.3 With warm regard, As ever 1 "I am sorry that the Republican Party thinks it can win this election by your making a lot of speeches," Edgar had written (AWF/N). On the President's recent itinerary see no. 1073. 2 "The Republicans are going to lose this election unless they get off the dais," Edgar had predicted. He went on to outline a program whereby "you might pull this election out of the fire." Edgar suggested the Republican National Committee should meet with committees "clear down to the precinct" level and advertise the accomplishments of the Eisenhower Administration. In this way, he said, the Republicans would "get out and see that their supporters are actually taken to the polls to vote." 3 Edgar had reported that his wife had been organizing events in the state of Washington "in order to get people out and then tell them the story of your administration." Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 22 October 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1119. 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/1119.cfm <--PREV Doc #1118  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1120

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