<--PREV Doc #1418  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1420 Document #1419; May 5, 1955 To Milton Stover Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, Name 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 Milton: I am well aware that many people have had the same idea as Tom Nichols. Nevertheless he is an enthusiast and it is really refreshing to talk to someone who has an idea that is meant to be helpful to the country and not merely to profit his own business.1 In my talk with Tom who, incidentally, is a very personable man, I told him this idea had been discussed in one form or another for many years, but my impression was that he thought he had some new twist to present. I agree with you that we should not sacrifice instruction in the humanities and in the social sciences.2 But if it is not too much of a drain on you, I do hope that you can talk to him sometime for an hour or so.3 As ever 1 For background on Thomas S. Nichols's April 27 meeting with the President see no. 1411. Eisenhower had asked Ann Whitman to send his brother Milton a copy of Nichols's proposal that military training be integrated with the nation's educational system (see Whitman to Milton Eisenhower, Apr. 27, 1955, AWF/N, Milton Eisenhower Corr.). 2 In a letter to Ann Whitman of May 2 Milton reported that he had been "horrified by some of Mr. Nichols's suggestions, including the one that we should sacrifice instruction in the humanities to make way for still more technical training" (AWF/N, Milton Eisenhower Corr.). 3 Milton said that he would try to arrange a meeting with Nichols. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 5 May 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1419. 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/1419.cfm <--PREV Doc #1418  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1420

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