<--PREV Doc #1248  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1250 Document #1249; January 14, 1955 To Arthur Frank Burns Series: EM, AWF, Administration Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VII: "Nothing could be worse than global war"; January 1955 to May 1955 Chapter 14: "We must show no lack of firmness"   Dear Arthur: While naturally I have not been able to give to each sentence the attention that such a report as yours deserves, I assure you that I find no parts that are "troubling" me. I repeat that I have every conviction that it is going to be a magnificent document--even if some of our radical liberals will unquestionably call it a reactionary treatise, while the real reactionaries will call it a "blueprint for socialism."1 All of which probably proves that you are just about right. You know I am grateful to you for the tremendous burden you are carrying. As ever 1 Burns had attended the regularly scheduled Cabinet meeting on this morning. Eisenhower had commended him on his work as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, especially in the preparation of the economic report to be presented to the Congress on January 20 (Cabinet meeting minutes, Jan. 14, 1955, AWF/Cabinet). On this same day Burns had submitted the galley proofs of the report for the President's review. Burns had added a postscript in longhand to the cover note: "I appreciate your kind remarks this morning" (AWF/A). On Monday morning, January 17, Burns and White House economic adviser Gabriel Hauge would meet with the President to review the economic message. On the report see Economic Report of the President, 1955 (Washington, D.C., 1955); see also Public Papers of the Presidents: Eisenhower, 1955, pp. 200-205, and New York Times, January 21, 1955, for a summary of the presentation. Highlights of the report included discussion of the sources of economic progress during 1954, a review of public and private actions that had helped prevent a deep recession, and a description of the Administration's further efforts to sustain the nation's economic growth in the future. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Arthur Frank Burns, 14 January 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1249. 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/1249.cfm <--PREV Doc #1248  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1250

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