<--PREV Doc #1337  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1339 Document #1338; March 9, 1955 To Homa Jackson Porter Series: EM, AWF, Drafts 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 15: Searching "for an honorable peace"   Dear Jack: Governor Adams has referred to me your note of March second.1 As far as prospective guests for stag dinners are concerned, although some have been submitted gratuitously, I have never asked anyone for suggestions. There are a few activities in this position that I decide according to my personal inclinations.2 Nevertheless, I will be glad to consider names you wish to submit. I must warn you that the list I have presently under contemplation is staggeringly long; there seems no possibility that I can ever include all the names submitted to me.3 With warm regard, Sincerely 1 Porter, Republican National Committeeman from Texas, had written Adams to suggest some names as future guests at White House stag dinners. This draft letter to Porter, which bears Eisenhower's handwritten changes, apparently was not used (Cross reference sheet, Porter, Mar. 2, 1955, WHCF/Alpha). 2 Eisenhower had added this sentence to the draft. Originally it had read, "There are a few activities in this position that I think I should reserve for expedience alone." 3 On March 10 Adams would write Porter that he would pass along his suggestions about dinner guests. The list was already so long, Adams would note, that it would not be possible to invite all of Porter's suggested names during 1955 (Cross reference sheet, Porter, Mar. 2, 1955, WHCF/Alpha). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Homa Jackson Porter, 9 March 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1338. 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/1338.cfm <--PREV Doc #1337  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1339

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