<--PREV Doc #1188  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1190 Document #1189; December 7, 1954 To John Foster Dulles Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter 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 Foster: With respect to the information given to you by former President Hoover, you did not indicate whether his task force is criticizing the organization of FOA, or the personnel and operations of the organization.1 The policies of FOA are established by the recommendations of the Security Council to the President, and by him forwarded to the Congress. From what you say about the similarity between the views of his task force and of Mr. Dodge, I assume that their criticism is directed largely toward organization. If this is the case, I know of no additional steps that need be taken.2 In any event, I am giving your memorandum, and a copy of this reply, to Mr. Dodge. With warm regard, As ever 1 Hoover had told Secretary Dulles on December 3 that his task force was "full of criticism of FOA" and that some individuals on the committee had been talking to members of Congress. He was trying to thwart a public attack by the Democrats, he said, so that the President would not be forced "to defend . . . an indefensible arrangement" (Dulles to Eisenhower, Dec. 4, 1954, AWF/D-H). For background on the Hoover Commission see no. 666; and for previous criticisms of the Foreign Operations Administration see no. 767. 2 Eisenhower had asked former Budget Director Joseph Dodge to investigate the operation of the Administration's foreign economic policy (see no. 1020). The Mutual Security Act of 1954 had provided for the abolishment of the FOA on June 30, 1955. The Department of Defense and the Department of State were to assume its functions. For more on terminating the FOA see State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. I, General: Economic and Political Matters, pt. 1, pp. 749-53, 788-92, 797-800, 814-16; and Kaufman, Trade and Aid, p. 52. For developments see no. 1271. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To John Foster Dulles, 7 December 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1189. 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/1189.cfm <--PREV Doc #1188  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1190

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