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Document
#1359; March 22, 1955
To Sherman Adams
Series:
EM, AWF, Administration Series
; Category:
Memorandum
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"
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Subject: Assignment of Roberta Barrows.1
My past duties in the United States Government have often brought me to the Executive Offices. These visits have extended back over many years.
For the greater part of this time I was accustomed to depend upon Roberta Barrows, sometimes for assistance and always for the most courteous and pleasantest of receptions in the outer office of the President. I see that we have removed her, although had I known about any such intention sufficiently in advance I would not have permitted it.
As of now, I am concerned about two points: (a) that her new assignment be one with a relatively permanent type of organization so that she can develop for herself in a prominent organization the kind of place which she is capable of filling; and, (b) that she is in position for promotion in whatever way a civil servant is promoted, and that she will not suffer because of the circumstances that in her new position she must be something of a "recruit."2
If you should like for me to talk with Philip Young about this I shall be glad to do so.3
Bibliographic reference to this document:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Memorandum To Sherman Adams,
22 March 1955.
In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1359.
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/1359.cfm
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