<--PREV Doc #1136  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1138 Document #1137; November 1, 1954 To William Harding Jackson Series: EM, AWF, Administration 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 Bill:1 Thank you for your note of the twenty-ninth. It is a rare occasion when anyone is privileged to get an accurate picture of the impression he makes on any individual upon first contact. While I am a little astonished--possibly even astounded--at the favorable opinion you expressed to your mother back in 1944, needless to say, of course, I am highly pleased.2 (In fact, I think I shall take your letter home and show it to Mrs. Eisenhower; I detect a slight tendency on her part more than occasionally to doubt the wisdom of my judgments!). With warm regard, Sincerely 1 On October 5 Jackson, a partner of J. H. Whitney and Company of New York, had visited the President in Denver to report on matters related to the government's informational activities (on the Eisenhowers' Denver vacation see no. 888). On October 27 he had been Eisenhower's guest at a stag dinner. 2 Jackson had sent Eisenhower a letter he had written to his mother on January 21, 1944, when he was a lieutenant serving in the United States Army Strategic Intelligence Branch, G-2, SHAEF, ETO. He told his mother that he had had the "great privilege . . . of briefing General Eisenhower on an intelligence matter . . . and he made the most favourable impression on me of any officer I have met in the Army." He went on to describe the General as "essentially a big man of great simplicity without the slightest affectation," possessing a "keen mind, great experience, and broad vision in his approach to all the problems we discussed." In his accompanying note, Jackson said, "Please do not acknowledge this letter and the letter to my mother can be destroyed after you have read it" (Jackson to Mrs. Maxwell Stevenson, and Jackson to Eisenhower, both in AWF/A, Jackson Corr.). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To William Harding Jackson, 1 November 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1137. 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/1137.cfm <--PREV Doc #1136  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1138

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