<--PREV Doc #1468  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1470 Document #1469; June 13, 1955 To Milton Stover Eisenhower Series: EM, AWF, Name Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVI - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part VIII: Toward "statesmanship of a high order"; June 1955 to November 1955 Chapter 16: Summitry at Geneva   Dear Milton: Enclosed are copies of letters I have written to Judge Milholland, to Mr. Ryan and to Ruth. I know it is needless for me to try to tell you how touched and honored I was by the events of Saturday.1 Perhaps the thing that pleased me most was the admiration and respect I felt on all sides for my youngest brother! When I returned to my desk this morning I found a volume of Kornitzer's book which he had inscribed to me. In its center are ten or a dozen pages of pictures that I did not see in the volume you gave me. There are numerous photographs that I had never seen before. On top of that, there are reproductions of one or two documents, such as postcards, that various people have apparently given to him. Quite obviously you did a good job of revising and editing. Nevertheless I agree with you that the best to be done with such a document is just to keep us all from looking fairly silly. At the same time I acknowledge that it might be better than I think--at least I hope so.2 As ever P.S. Did you read the editorial in the Sunday New York Times about the speech. I am told it was quite good.3 1 On June 11 Eisenhower had made the commencement address and received an honorary doctor of laws degree at Pennsylvania State University (see no. 1460). The thank-you letters (this same date) to James Milholland, president of the university's board of trustees; John T. Ryan, Jr. (M.B.A. Harvard 1936), president and director of Mine Safety Appliance Company; and Ruth Eisenhower, Milton's daughter, are in AWF/N, Milton Eisenhower Corr. On June 16 Milton would thank the President for writing these letters (AWF/N). 2 On Kornitzer's book see no. 106. 3 The June 12 editorial praised Eisenhower for speaking about a "vision of a better world" in which knowledge, skill, and technology would be used to mankind's advantage. For developments see no. 1473. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 13 June 1955. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1469. 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/1469.cfm <--PREV Doc #1468  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1470

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