<--PREV Doc #1135  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1137 Document #1136; November 1, 1954 To Philip Young 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 13: "A new phase of political experience"   Dear Phil: In addition to your duties as my personal representative at all centennials, you are hereby assigned a similar task for conferences, public dinners and especially motorcades. From now on all I shall have to do is to sit back and await your brilliant--and devastating--reports.1 I seem to detect somewhere along the way your fine hand in the stranding of Jerry Kluttz at Arden House.2 Is that a fair observation? As ever 1 For background on Civil Service Commission Chairman Young's role as Eisenhower's personal representative see no. 966. Young had reported on the sixth American Assembly conference held October 7-10 at Arden House in Harriman, New York (Oct. 23, 1954, AWF/N). The theme for the assembly was "The Federal Government Service: Its Character, Prestige, and Problems" (see also New York Times, Oct. 7-11, 1954). For background on the American Assembly see no. 34. 2 Kluttz (B.S. George Washington University 1931), editor of the "Federal Diary" column in the Washington Post since 1948, had represented the press at the American Assembly. Regarding Kluttz Young had written, "For once he was helpful and constructive, but got his nose out of joint when the Assembly ended and the bus went off without him." Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Philip Young, 1 November 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1136. 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/1136.cfm <--PREV Doc #1135  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1137

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