<--PREV Doc #133  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #135 Document #134; April 6, 1953 To John Foster Dulles Series: EM, AWF, Dulles-Herter Series ; Category: The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XIV - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part I: Charting a New Course; January 1953 to April 1953 Chapter 2: "A number of misunderstandings": Party and International Struggles   Dear Foster: It occurs to me that very soon you are going to start on a long and exhausting round of duties that will constitute a considerable drain on you and your strength.1 In preparation for the tour in Europe and the later one in the Middle East, why don't you take Mrs. Dulles2 and go away for a few days? We shall miss you, of course, but you may as well let some of these boys get used to trying out their own wings while you are still in the country and where we can reach you by telephone if we really have a crisis. You may think you are too busy to go to some nice vacation spot for a week, but I am sure that, if you ask Mrs. Dulles' opinion, she will be on my side.3 Sincerely 1 On the late-April session of the North Atlantic Council in Paris see no. 157; between May 9 and 29, Dulles and MSA Director Harold E. Stassen would tour Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, and Pakistan (see nos. 153 and 161; and State, Foreign Relations, 1952-1954, vol. IX, The Near and Middle East, pt. 1, pp. 1-167). 2 The former Janet Pomeroy Avery. 3 In his reply of April 8 (AWF/D-H) Dulles told the President, "We are following your advice and . . . `advice' from the President is authoritative." The Dulleses would vacation at their log cabin retreat on Duck Island, Lake Ontario (Townsend Hoopes, The Devil and John Foster Dulles [Boston, 1973], p. 41; New York Times, Apr. 11, 17, 1953). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To John Foster Dulles, 6 April 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 134. 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/134.cfm <--PREV Doc #133  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #135

Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission 1629 K Street, NW Suite 801 Washington DC 20006 Phone: 202.296.0004    Fax: 202.296.6464